[Yaml-core] YamlCat - a _very_ trivial YAML processor

[Robin G. <gr...@pr...>]

I would like to announce what could be the most trivial YAML processor
ever to be developed, now or hence! ;-) YamlCat - the equivalent of the
UNIX cat command, for Yaml streams.

You could, of course, just try to use cat, but that won't deal with all
possible cases in a consistent way. YamlCat will. As YamlCat has only one
very simple purpose in life, I was able to spend time doing the following:
 - Adding support for URIs, not just files and stdin
 - Writing automated tests
 - Ensuring all corner cases worked, even N streams in different
encodings.
I hope that YamlCat is fully spec-compliant - in the very limited
sense that, given any N legal streams, YamlCat will output a
functionally-identical, legal concatenation of those streams. However,
some bugs may still remain.

Here it is: http://www.greenrd.org/yaml/yamlcat/

I made it to scratch an itch. If anyone else finds it useful that will be
a bonus. In particular, it has a generic YAMLReader class that handles
encoding detection, that may be useful for other Java programmers. (Note,
it's merely a java.io.Reader, not a parser.)

-- 
Robin