[cfe-dev] RFC: YAML as an intermediate format for clang::tooling::Replacement data on disk

[Vane, Edwin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Klimek [mailto:klimek at google.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 9:40 AM
> To: Vane, Edwin
> Cc: Alex Rosenberg; Clang Dev List (cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu)
> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] RFC: YAML as an intermediate format for
> clang::tooling::Replacement data on disk

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> Note that the compilation databases use the YAML parser. JSON is a subset of
> YAML. I'd also (slightly) prefer to use JSON over YAML for the intermediate
> representation.

Is it enough to hard-code the output into JSON format and just use the YAML parser for reading? Or should we aim for a general purpose JSON reader/writer as with YAML in LLVM? Either way, I think the general purpose parser is beyond scope for what we want to achieve at this time with the migrator.