This project contains Jackson extension component for reading and writing YAML encoded data. SnakeYAML library is used for low-level YAML parsing. This project adds necessary abstractions on top to make things work with other Jackson functionality.

Project is licensed under Apache License 2.0.

Module has been production ready since version 2.5.

To use this extension on Maven-based projects, use following dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
  <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
  <version>2.8.3</version>
</dependency>

Usage is as with basic JsonFactory; most commonly you will just construct a standard ObjectMapper with com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml.YAMLFactory, like so:

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(new YAMLFactory());
User user = mapper.readValue(yamlSource, User.class);

but you can also just use underlying YAMLFactory and parser it produces, for event-based processing:

YAMLFactory factory = new YAMLFactory();
JsonParser parser = factory.createJsonParser(yamlString); // don't be fooled by method name...
while (parser.nextToken() != null) {
  // do something!
}

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