Hi.
The 'formatString' example you quote would normally be written like this,
though:
brooklyn.config:
brooklyn.example.db.url:
$brooklyn:formatString:
- "jdbc:%s%s?user=%s\\&password=%s"
- $brooklyn:component("db").attributeWhenReady("datastore.url")
- "visitors"
- "brooklyn"
- "br00k11n"
So, I'm not sure what we gain here? I'll have a proper look at the YAML
spec, though, and see if I can understand it better.
Cheers,
Andrew.
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 at 13:35 Thomas Bouron <thomas.bou...@cloudsoftcorp.com>
wrote:
> Hi All
>
> The YAML spec[1] has a very nice and standard way of defining custom types
> by prefixing any value or object by a `!!<type_name>`. This seems like a
> perfect feature for the Brooklyn DSL instead of the `$brooklyn:<command>`.
> Let's me explain why.
>
> Right now, a Brooklyn DSL command needs to be written as a string such as:
> $brooklyn:formatString("jdbc:%s%s?user=%s\\&password=%s",
> component("db").attributeWhenReady("datastore.url"),
> "visitors", "brooklyn", "br00k11n")
> However, any good YAML library (such as js-yaml[2]) to parse and dump YAML
> <--> JSON would wrap this string in quotes because it contains quotes or
> reserved characters. That is the expected behaviour based on the
> specification[3]. But this is an issue for the Brooklyn parser as the value
> will be treated as a `String` and not as a `DslCommand` object.
>
> So my proposal is as follow: support the Brooklyn DSL as a standard custom
> YAML type. We obviously need to avoid any quote or reserved characters.
> That is relatively simple for commands that takes only one parameter, for
> instance:
>
> - $brooklyn:component('my-id') could become
> - !brooklyn:component my-id
> - $brooklyn:entitySpec would become
> - !brooklyn:spec
>
> For the more complex ones, I created a gist[4] that illustrates how this
> could work. It is more verbose than the current version but we get a rid of
> the hacky `$brooklyn` and comply fully to the YAML specification.
>
> Best.
>
> [1] http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html
> [2] https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml
> [3] http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2788859
> [4] https://gist.github.com/tbouron/67527796726e10689d8d3c34784cd7ec
>
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