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YamlDotNet is a .NET library for YAML

YamlDotNet provides low level parsing and emitting of YAML as well as a high level object model similar to XmlDocument. A serialization library is also included that allows to read and write objects from and to YAML streams.

The most up-to-date version can always be found right from Visual studio by installing following NuGet package - YamlDotNet.

PM> Install-Package YamlDotNet

Documentation can be found on the official page.

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What does a single exclamation mark do in YAML?

I'm working with the YamlDotNet library and I'm getting this error when loading a YAML file: While parsing a tag, did not find expected tag URI. The YAML file is supposed to be well-formed because it comes right from RoR. The error seems to be…
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Generate Swagger YAML Open API Spec programmatically from WSDL/XML

I have a SOAP API already defined via WSDLs. Is there any tool that I can use to convert WSDL to Open API Swagger documents? I am assuming that I would need to write custom code to to create a Swagger 3.0 Open API YAML specification from an…
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How Can I Parse YAML Into a Derived Collection Using YamlDotNet?

Using YamlDotNet, I am attempting to deserialize the following YAML: Collection: - Type: TypeA TypeAProperty: value1 - Type: TypeB TypeBProperty: value2 The Type property is a required property for all objects under Collection. The rest…
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How to parse a yaml string

I want to parse yaml in c# in such a way that I get a List of Hashtables. I'm using YamlDotNet. Here is my code: TextReader tr = new StringReader(txtRawData.Text); var reader = new EventReader(new MergingParser(new Parser(tr))); Deserializer des =…
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YamlDotNet - need deserializer to ignore extra nodes or be okay with missing nodes

I am trying to use YamlDotNet to help me parse a config file. I have studies its documentation and found two ways: Using YamlStream's Load() method, followed by examining the nodes of the YamlDocument it has created; Writing a family of related…
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Build a Yaml document dynamically from c#

Is it possible to build a Yaml document dynamically from c# with Yaml.DotNet or another library? I understand how this can be done using serialisation, however that requires starting with an object structure. I'm looking to find a way to create…
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How to convert JSON to YAML using YamlDotNet

I am trying to convert JSON to YAML using YamlDotNet. This is the code I have: class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var json =…
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Deserialize a YAML "Table" of data

I am using yamldotnet and c# to deserialize a file created by a third party software application. The following YAML file examples are both valid from the application: #File1 Groups: - Name: ATeam FirstName, LastName, Age, Height: -…
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How to convert YAML to JSON?

I'm looking to convert between a YAML file, and JSON. This was really difficult to find any information on.
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Seeking guidance reading .yaml files with C#

Two months later: The YAML (Eve Online blueprint.yaml) file I tried to parse changed a huge deal which also made it much easier to parse using de deserializer. If someone (for whatever reason) would like to see the code, it's updated on…
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Deserializing YAML into Custom Types

I'm currently trying to deserialize a YAML document into standard .NET objects, such as string for scalar values and Dictionary for mappings, using YamlDotNet library. I guess that Deserializer class is the best option, but its…
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YamlDotNet - Custom Serialization

I have a .NET class which represents a RPC method call, like this: class MethodCall { public string MethodName { get; set; } public Collection Arguments { get; set; } } I want to serialize a Collection to YAML. I'm using…
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Change the scalar style used for all multi-line strings when serialising a dynamic model using YamlDotNet

I am using the following code snippet to serialise a dynamic model of a project to a string (which is eventually exported to a YAML file). dynamic exportModel = exportModelConvertor.ToDynamicModel(project); var serializerBuilder = new…
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YamlDotNet can not find property

I am trying to create a simple model for parsing a yaml file to my domain object using YamlDotNet. The caveat is, that I want the domain model to be readonly, so I'm attempting to solve this through inheritance and internal setters. For some reason…
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how to serialize unmatched tags to dictionary?

I'm trying to parse this YAML document using YamlDotNet: title: Document with dynamic properties /a: description: something /b: description: other something Into this object: public class SimpleDoc { [YamlMember(Alias = "title")] …
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