[ ruby-Bugs-8886 ] YAML fails to load a Hash containing a Pathname

Bugs item #8886, was opened at 2007-02-26 14:42
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Category: Standard Library
Group: 1.8.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Andreas Sch辰fer (gentryx)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: YAML fails to load a Hash containing a Pathname

Initial Comment:
For Ruby 1.8.5 YAML fails a dump/load cycle for a Hash containing Pathnames. Note that it will succeed for Hash only as well as a single Pathname.

gentryx@hex ~/typemapgenerator/trunk $ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [x86_64-linux]

gentryx@hex ~/typemapgenerator/trunk $ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'pathname'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'yaml'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> h = { Pathname.new("foo") => "543" }
=> {#<Pathname:foo>=>"543"}
irb(main):004:0> s = YAML.dump(h)
=> "--- \n!ruby/object:Pathname ? \n  path: foo\n: \543\\n\n"
irb(main):005:0> puts s
---
!ruby/object:Pathname ?
  path: foo
: "543"

=> nil
irb(main):006:0> YAML.load(s)
ArgumentError: syntax error on line 2, col -1: `  path: foo
: "543"

'
        from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
        from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
        from (irb):6
irb(main):007:0>       

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