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Allow user to extend set of supported types for YAML parsing/writing. #191

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bartgol opened this issue Feb 22, 2022 · 0 comments
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bartgol commented Feb 22, 2022

It would be nice to allow users to provide YAML files that can directly be parsed into some structs. E.g., it would be nice to parse

  My Complex: 1.0 + 3i
  My Int Pairs: [ P(1,2), P(0,1)]

directly into a std::complex and a std::vector<std::pair<int,int>> respectively. Even more interesting/useful would be to parse straight into enums, so that one can do

auto plist = parse_yaml_file("blah.yaml");
MyEnum value = plist.get<MyEnum>("The Enum");
...

without having to tediously do string->enum conversion every time.

To do this, we should put the is_type<T> and str2type<T> functions into a separate file. Then, somehow, allow the user to provide its own specializations (along with operator<< for writing, if writing/print is needed). One way could be to have a "database" of these functions, and let the user register its own functions at any point before calling the YAML parse/write routines.

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