Iteration

[quantumew]

I haven't spent any time looking into this but it appears that iteration is a problem for yq. For instance,
Let's say this is the contents of test.yaml is a simple list

 - stuff
 - otherThings

Then you do yq '.[]' test.yaml it blows up. Just thought I would document it here so it gets looked into.

[quantumew]

I had some time to look at this, it is pretty obvious. Lets say you have a list of objects, iterating over them results in invalid YAML and that is why yaml.load(stdout) blows up. Makes sense.

[kyle-long]

Thanks, makes sense. Seems like this would be easily fixed by simply attempting to decode it as json. If it is not json, we should be able to just output the value directly.

[kyle-long]

Fixed here I hope

2d8946f

feel free to reopen if it doesn't work for you as expected.

[kyle-long]

Soon after closing this issue I realized it does not fix the problem completely. In a case like

- hello: hi
- hello2: hi

You would get something like

{
    "hello": "hi"
}
{
    "hello2": "hi"
}

Really I would need to do something like try to identify where the limits of a json document might be and decrypt them separately. That or change options that get passed along somehow and reimplement parts of the syntax.

The latter doesn't sound too appealing.

If I were to always pass along -c (for compact output) I could parse it line by line.