From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-08-20T08:34:42+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML Bug - can't round-trip a hash value with leading newlines.

Please file a bug if you could, at http://bugs.jruby.org :)

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Daniel Sheppard <daniels@pronto.com.au> wrote:
> YAML can't round-trip the hash: {"default"=>"\r\n  Monkey \r\nX"}.
>
> Shouldn't yaml use the escaped string format for any string that starts with whitespace, ie,
>
> yaml = "--- \ndefault: \"\\r\\n  Monkey \\r\\nX\""
> p YAML.load(yaml)
> => {"default"=>"\r\n  Monkey \r\nX"}
>
> Below is a demonstration of this:
>
> ruby <<-EOF
> hash = {"default"=>"\r\n  Monkey \r\nX"}
> yaml = YAML.dump(hash)
> p yaml
> hash2 = YAML.load(yaml)
> EOF
> "--- \ndefault: |-\n  \r\n    Monkey\r\n  \r\n  <h2>Contact us</h2>\n"
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load': syntax error on line 4, col 2: `  X' (ArgumentError)
>        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
>        from -:4
>
> ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [i686-linux]
>
>
> Same bug exists in the jruby implementation as well.
>
>