I have a long clojure String (java.lang.String) representing a JSON. It has \"normal\" looking syntax like so:
\"{ a:1, b:\"hello\" }\"
The key
The link from @jas includes a comment that "it looks like YAML" (if the colons are followed by a space).
I have integrated the new snakeyaml-engine library into the Tupelo Library. API docs are here. The answer is now super-simple:
(ns tst.demo.core
(:use demo.core tupelo.core tupelo.test)
(:require [tupelo.parse.yaml :as yaml] ))
(dotest
(let [data-1 "{ a: 1, b: 'Hello World' }"]
(is= (yaml/parse data-1) {:a 1, :b "Hello World"})))
Given project.clj
[io.forward/yaml "1.0.9"]
this works:
(ns tst.demo.core
(:require [yaml.core :as yaml]) )
(def data-1 "{ a: 1, b: \"Hello World\" }" )
(let [result-raw (yaml/parse-string data-1)
result (into {} result-raw)]
with result
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Clojure 1.10.0 Java 10.0.1
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Testing tst.demo.core
result-raw => #ordered/map ([:a 1] [:b "Hello World"])
result => {:a 1, :b "Hello World"}
Unfortunately it (currently) fails under Java 11 because a dependent library needs a type hint. You can work around this by fixing up your project.clj
:
:dependencies [
[io.forward/yaml "1.0.9" :exclusions [org.flatland/ordered
org.yaml/snakeyaml] ]
[org.yaml/snakeyaml "1.23"]
[org.flatland/ordered "1.5.7"]
[org.clojure/clojure "1.10.0"]
I filed an issue with the io.forward/yaml
project to update their dependencies.