Re: Serializing service config to YAML

[wolf]

On 2023-07-27 00:37:14 +0200, Csepp wrote:
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> TakeV <takev@disroot.org> writes:
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> > Hello there!
> >
> > I am attempting to create a service to run a package (specifically
> > this https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial) via shepherd.
> > I have the config defined as specified in the complex configuration
> > part of the manual, and I was wondering if there are any existing
> > examples of serializing configurations to YAML? Right now I have
> > everything passing directly into the command line, and being able to
> > serialize to a config and pass that in would be much cleaner, I
> > believe.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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> Grepping through the source code didn't reveal any meaningful references
> to yaml.
> There is an ad-hoc config generator in gnu/services/web.scm that
> generates a tailon-config.yml, but at a quick glance it doesn't seem to
> be a generic converter.  But maybe it's a good starting point?
> I checked guile-libyaml but it is only a parser and doesn't support
> serializing Scheme into YAML as far as I can tell.
>

You can always just cheat a bit by using the fact that pretty much any JSON is a
valid YAML.  So just serialize to that and name the file .yaml.  ^_^

W.

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