[https://nim-lang.org/docs/marshal.html](https://nim-lang.org/docs/marshal.html)
I just started playing with marshal module. Seems to be the easiest way to
store objects in an human readable form to disk. My test is
import
marshal, streams
var s = newFileStream("somefile.txt", fmWrite)
type
R = object
x, y, w, h: int
O = object
name: string
r: seq[R]
var o: O
o.name = "test"
o.r.add(R(x: 1, y: 2, w: 2, h: 6))
o.r.add(R(x: 5, y: 7, w: 20, h: 8))
o.r.add(R(x: 9, y: 17, w: 28, h: 18))
store(s, o)
s.close()
Run
Result is
$ cat somefile.txt
{"name": "test", "r": [{"x": 1, "y": 2, "w": 2, "h": 6}, {"x": 5, "y": 7,
"w": 20, "h": 8}, {"x": 9, "y": 17, "w": 28, "h": 18}]}
Run
So all is dumped to one single very long line? Then that is not really human
readable. The other disadvantage of marshal is that it seems to work not with
inheritance, it can only use compile time types, but that should be OK for my
use case, as I try to avoid inheritance.
So I may have to use JSON or extern YAML module? I really like YAML, as it has
good human readability and can be even edited with a text editor. And if I
remember correctly its author was a bright one. But I think he has retired
years ago, can not even remember his name.
So my question would be: What is the future of YAML module, will it at least
still work with Nim 2.0 ?
