YAML sequence block doesn't need to indent

+1 vote
asked Feb 5, 2021 in Bug by Martin (8,360 points)

According to the spec

"Since people perceive the “-” indicator as indentation, nested block sequences may be indented by one less space to compensate

So the following is valid:

@startyaml
A:
  B:
  - item 1
  - item 2
@endyaml
But PlantUML loses B

I noticed this because it is used on https://yaml.org

@startyaml
Projects:
  Delphi:
  - Neslib.Yaml        # YAML 1.1 Delphi binding to libyaml                                | YTS
  Golang:
  - Go-yaml            # YAML support for the Go language.
  - Go-gypsy           # Simplified YAML parser written in Go.
  - goccy/go-yaml      # YAML 1.2 implementation in pure Go.
  Haskell:
  - HsYAML             # YAML 1.2 implementation in pure Haskell                           | YTS
  - YamlReference      # Haskell 1.2 reference parser
  - yaml               # YAML 1.1 parser/renderer for Haskell (based on libyaml)
@endyaml

Note the missing Delphi/GoLang/Haskell layer:

(The YAML spec is ridiculously complicated for what it actually achieves!)

1 Answer

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answered Feb 7, 2021 by Martin (8,360 points)
selected Feb 7, 2021 by Martin
 
Best answer
This is fixed now!
commented Feb 8, 2021 by albert (3,520 points)
edited Feb 8, 2021 by albert

I'm not sure, it looks like the first example:

@startyaml
A:
  B:
  - item 1
  - item 2
@endyaml

doesn't work.

By accident I made a typo (note the extra p in the @endyampl but the same accounts that it is OK when using just @end):

@startyaml
A:
  B:
  - item 1
  - item 2
@endyampl

and this looks like to work!!

NOTE: locally both versions worked the wrong part I saw was on the plantuml webserver

OK: http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/uml/SoWkIImggKpCpU5ojE9IK7024ReAcIMfkGg62AOHbqDgNWe0

Wrong: http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/uml/SoWkIImggKpCpU5ojE9IK7024ReAcIMfkGg62AOHbqDgNWf86G00

commented Feb 9, 2021 by Martin (8,360 points)
Hi albert, you've fallen into the same trap I fell into recently.  It's a browser caching issue - hence why a small tweak fixes it.  In my browser (Opera) "control-F5" forces a page reload without cache, there's probably something similar available in whatever browser you use (...then it's just a case of remembering to use it!).
commented Feb 9, 2021 by albert (3,520 points)
Sounds logical. I cleared my cache (FireFox), restarted the browser and the problem still happened. I also tried it with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge but in both cases I saw the wrong image (and here it cannot be cached as I didn't use these ones for a while).
commented Feb 9, 2021 by Martin (8,360 points)
strange.  makes it sound like the caching is on the Plantuml server side then, or at your ISP.

All I can say is that the two examples you posted above render identically (and correctly showing "B") for me...
commented Feb 9, 2021 by albert (3,520 points)
Very weird problem as the svg and ascii art versions on the server look OK.
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