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

[Manuel Klimek]

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Vane, Edwin <edwin.vane at intel.com> wrote:

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>
> > -----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
>
> ...
>
> > 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.
>

I'm opposed to any "general purpose" parsing. Whether JSON is sufficient
here is a question of definition ;) I'd define the interface to be JSON,
and, like you suggest, output JSON and use the YAML parser for parsing.
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