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Reputation: 1084

Java: Load data into variables from a .yaml file

I've a Java program that should connect to two other machines (IP addresses and ports are known) and do a data comparison task.

Instead of hardcoding the IP and port in the Java source file, I created a config.yaml file and stored these there as follows, let's say this is the context of that file:

config.yaml:

other machines:
  -"firstMachineAddress:162.242.195.82"
  -"secondMachineAddress:50.31.209.229"
  -"firstTargetPort:4041"
  -"secondTargetPort:4042"

Now I want to load these values in my Java source file and assign them to the variables I created already, such as:

sampleClass.java:

// addresses of the machines which we will connect
    public final InetAddress firstMachineAddress = "";
    public final InetAddress secondMachineAddress = "";
    private final int firstTargetPort = "";
    private final int secondTargetPort = "";

I was wondering if Java provides a convenient way to achieve this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8458

Answers (1)

Olayinka
Olayinka

Reputation: 2845

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformat-yaml

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Maven dependency

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

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
    <version>2.9.8</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.9.8</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
    <version>3.8.1</version>
</dependency>

Usage

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!
}

Upvotes: 2

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