[ruby-core:42404] [ruby-trunk - Bug #5978][Open] YAML.load_stream should process documents as they are read

Issue #5978 has been reported by Thomas Sawyer.

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Bug #5978: YAML.load_stream should process documents as they are read
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5978

Author: Thomas Sawyer
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 2.0.0
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [x86_64-linux]


Psych say YAML.load_documents is deprecated and say to use `YAML.load_stream` instead.

Looking at the implementation for `load_stream()`, looks to me as if it waits for all documents in the stream to load before anything can be done with it.

    # File 'lib/psych.rb', line 221

    def self.load_stream yaml
      parse_stream(yaml).children.map { |child| child.to_ruby }
    end

I don't think this should be the case. Ideally `load_stream()` would take a block, and if an IO object is given, read a document, yield it and then read the next document, and so on.

I imagine an Enumerator might be applicable to this as well.


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