Issue Parsing File with YAML-CPP
- by Andrew
In the following code, I'm having some sort of issue getting my .yaml file parsed using parser.GetNextDocument(doc);. After much gross debugging, I've found that the (main) issue here is that my for loop is not running, due to doc.size() == 0; What am I doing wrong?
void
BookView::load()
{
  aBook.clear();
  QString fileName =
    QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this, tr("Load Address Book"),
                 "", tr("Address Book (*.yaml);;All Files (*)"));
  if(fileName.isEmpty())
    {
      return;
    }
  else
    {
      try
    {
      std::ifstream fin(fileName.toStdString().c_str());
      YAML::Parser parser(fin);
      YAML::Node doc;
      std::map< std::string, std::string > entry;
      parser.GetNextDocument(doc);
      std::cout << doc.size();
      for( YAML::Iterator it = doc.begin(); it != doc.end(); it++  )
        {
          *it >> entry;
          aBook.push_back(entry);
        }
    }
      catch(YAML::ParserException &e)
    {
      std::cout << "YAML Exception caught: "
            << e.what()
            << std::endl;
    }
    }
  updateLayout( Navigating );
}
The .yaml file being read was generated using yaml-cpp, so I assume it is correctly formed YAML, but just in case, here's the file anyways.
^@^@^@\230---
-
  address: ******************
  comment: None.
  email: andrew(dot)levenson(at)gmail(dot)com
  name: Andrew Levenson
  phone: **********^@
Edit: By request, the emitting code:
void
BookView::save()
{
  QString fileName =
    QFileDialog::getSaveFileName(this, tr("Save Address Book"), "",
                 tr("Address Book (*.yaml);;All Files (*)"));
  if (fileName.isEmpty())
    {
      return;
    }
  else
    {
      QFile file(fileName);
      if(!file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly))
    {
      QMessageBox::information(this, tr("Unable to open file"),
                   file.errorString());
      return;
    }
      std::vector< std::map< std::string, std::string > >::iterator itr;
      std::map< std::string, std::string >::iterator mItr;
      YAML::Emitter yaml;
      yaml << YAML::BeginSeq;
      for( itr = aBook.begin(); itr < aBook.end(); itr++ )
    {
      yaml << YAML::BeginMap;
      for( mItr = (*itr).begin(); mItr != (*itr).end(); mItr++ )
        {
          yaml << YAML::Key << (*mItr).first << YAML::Value << (*mItr).second;
        }
      yaml << YAML::EndMap;
    }
      yaml << YAML::EndSeq;
      QDataStream out(&file);
      out.setVersion(QDataStream::Qt_4_5);
      out << yaml.c_str();
    }      
}