Nobody/Anonymous - 2008-08-14

Example program 'test.java':

import org.ho.yaml.Yaml;

public class test {
    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        String a = "---\na: this is\nb: test,please,help\nc: 'thanks'";
        System.out.println("testing: " + a);
        Yaml.load(a);
    }
}

I'm trying to parse YAML passed to me from a third party.  In this case, there's a string "test,please,help" that's not quoted.

org.ho.yaml.Yaml version 1.3 generates an exception:

Exception in thread "main" org.ho.yaml.exception.YamlException: Error near line 3: Unterminated inline value
        at org.ho.yaml.JYamlParserEvent.error(Unknown Source)
        at org.ho.yaml.YamlDecoder.firstDocument(Unknown Source)
        at org.ho.yaml.YamlDecoder.readObject(Unknown Source)
        at org.ho.yaml.YamlConfig.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.ho.yaml.YamlConfig.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.ho.yaml.YamlConfig.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.ho.yaml.Yaml.load(Unknown Source)
        at test.main(test.java:8)

If I quote the string, it is successfully parsed.  Unfortunately I am not in control of the YAML that's generated -- I'm just responsible from parsing it.

Is org.ho.yaml.Yaml correct in throwing an exception because the Yaml is 'malformed,' or should org.ho.yaml.Yaml be able to deal with commas in string literals?

thanks!