Does anyone know a simple yaml parser library for ...

# multiplatform

[fkrauthan]

Does anyone know a simple yaml parser library for kotlin multiplatform?

[Dominaezzz]

https://github.com/charleskorn/kaml

[Dominaezzz]

Oops, it's jvm only. Nvm.

[Casey Brooks]

I don’t know of any pure-Kotlin implementations yet. YAML parsers are very complex and difficult to get right, so if there is one out there, I don’t think I would trust it for production use since MPP is so new. I think your best bet would just to use actual/expect declarations over platform-standard libraries

[fkrauthan]

hmm ok yeah I was worried that I have to go down that route

[louiscad]

@charleskorn Since your library depends on kotlinx.serialization which is multiplatform, maybe it could be multiplatform too? Or are you using JVM-only APIs or dependencies?

[fkrauthan]

I though initally its multiplatform but he uses a JVM library for the actual Yaml parsing.

[charleskorn]

I’ve always planned to create a K/N version using libyaml (or similar) to do the parsing, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet - biggest blocker is the lack of support for K/N in Spek.

[charleskorn]

But yes, right now, it’s JVM-only.

[magnumrocha]

this is a good oportunity to make kaml be multiplatform....

[magnumrocha]

and with it contribute to kmp ecosystem.

[raniejade]

@charleskorn I can start publishing the artifacts you need for using Spek in K/N. Biggest downside is that there is no IDE support yet and gradle reporting is via console only (and also blocked by the upgrade to 1.3.70 - significant changes to the compiler plugin api)