From: Travis Smith <zultan.durin@...>
Date: 2005-03-22T11:23:15+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML Parsing, ignoring objects?

I missed that last part on that page and it turns out that's exactly
what I want. Thanks for pointing that out. Minimal maintenance with
leaving most of the work to YAML parser.

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 05:22:23 +0900, why the lucky stiff
<ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:
> Travis Smith wrote:
> 
> >I have a class which when YAMLized produces...
> >
> >--- !ruby/object:Player
> >name: dude
> >password: dude
> >session: !ruby/object:TCPSocket {}
> >thread: !ruby/object:Thread {}
> >
> >I'd like to figure out a way for it to just ignore the Thread and/or
> >TCPSocket type. It won't choke on the socket, but it will loading up
> >the Thread. Can I add a domain type that will just produce nil not
> >matter what happens?
> >
> >
> Hey, Travis.  You can define to_yaml_properties for any object, which is
> simply an method which returns an array of properties you want in your
> YAML doc, in the order you like.
> 
>   class Player
>      def to_yaml_properties; ['@name', '@password']; end
>   end
> 
> You can read more in the docs[1].  See the section "Type Families".
> 
> _why
> 
> [1] http://yaml4r.sf.net/doc/
> 
> 


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~Travis