consolidation/comments

A tool for preserving comments, e.g. when parsing YAML files.

1.0.2 2019-07-30 05:52 UTC

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A tool for preserving comments, e.g. when parsing YAML files.

Build Status Windows Build Scrutinizer Code Quality Coverage Status License

Component Status

Prototype.

Motivation

Do lightweight editing on YAML files and then rewrite the file without losing embedded comments.

Usage

// First step: read the file, parse the yaml, edit and dump the results.

$original_contents = file_get_contents($filepath);
$parsed_data = Yaml::parse($original_contents);
$processed_data = $this->my_processing_function($parsed_data);
$altered_contents = Yaml::dump($parsed_data, PHP_INT_MAX, 2, Yaml::DUMP_MULTI_LINE_LITERAL_BLOCK);

// Second step: collect comments from original document and inject them into result.

$commentManager = new Comments();
$commentManager->collect(explode("\n", $original_contents));
$altered_with_comments = $commentManager->inject(explode("\n", $altered_contents));

$result = implode("\n", $altered_with_comments);

Limitations

The comment manager collects groups of comment lines and associates them with the first non-blank content line that follows the comment. If there are multiple non-blank content lines that are exactly the same, then the comment lines are re-injected in the same order they appeared in the original file.

Installation

$ composer require consolidation/comments

Comparison to Existing Solutions

See Klausi's yaml_comments.