Explained the explicit typing in YAML documents #8200
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| The YAML specification defines some tags to set the type of any data explicitly: |
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| # this value is parsed as a string (it's not transformed into a DateTime) | ||
| start_date: !str 2002-12-14 |
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Actually, using the !str tag is not valid YAML. I wonder if we should add support for !!str in Symfony 2.7 as a bugfix.
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I've created this issue: symfony/symfony#23607
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Issue closed. So let's keep it as is.
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I am still reluctant to document invalid YAML. I suggest to just remove it here and only document the !!str in the 3.4 docs.
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I agree with @xabbuh. !str is "a Symfony thing" and it's wrong. Let's pretend it doesn't exist 😁
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Issue closed. So let's keep it as is.
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Thank you Javier. |
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…uiluz) This PR was squashed before being merged into the 2.7 branch (closes #8200). Discussion ---------- Explained the explicit typing in YAML documents I was going to fix #8173 but I couldn't find the explicit typing explanation anywhere, so I include it here. ----- When merging this into 3.4, the `!str` tag must be changed by `!!tag` and we must add this: ``` .. versionadded:: 3.4 The support of ``!!str`` tag was introduced in Symfony 3.4. In previous versions you needed to use the ``!str`` tag. ``` Commits ------- aa1b968 Explained the explicit typing in YAML documents
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I was going to fix #8173 but I couldn't find the explicit typing explanation anywhere, so I include it here.
When merging this into 3.4, the
!strtag must be changed by!!tagand we must add this: