YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language)

YAML e uma linguagem de serializacao de dados legivel por humanos, frequentemente utilizada para ficheiros de configuracao e troca de dados. Utiliza indentacao em vez de chavetas ou tags, tornando-o visualmente limpo e facil de editar.

Tipo MIME

application/x-yaml

Tipo

Texto

Compressão

Sem perdas

Vantagens

+ Highly readable — minimal syntax noise
+ Supports comments for inline documentation
+ Native in Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and CI/CD systems
+ Superset of JSON — any JSON is valid YAML

Desvantagens

− Indentation-sensitive — whitespace errors cause silent failures
− Implicit type coercion can cause bugs ('yes' becomes boolean true)
− More complex specification than JSON with anchors, tags, and directives

Quando usar .YAML

Use YAML para ficheiros de configuracao (Docker Compose, Kubernetes, CI/CD), dados legivel por humanos e configuracoes de aplicacoes.

Detalhes técnicos

O YAML utiliza indentacao (espacos, nao tabs) para estrutura, suporta ancoras e alias para deduplicacao e permite multiplos documentos num unico ficheiro. A especificacao YAML 1.2 e um superconjunto do JSON.

Histórico

O YAML foi proposto pela primeira vez por Clark Evans em 2001. A especificacao evoluiu atraves das versoes 1.0 (2004), 1.1 (2005) e 1.2 (2009), esta ultima alinhando o YAML mais estreitamente com o JSON.

Converter de .YAML

.yaml → .csv .yaml → .json .yaml → .ndjson .yaml → .sql .yaml → .toml .yaml → .tsv .yaml → .xml .yaml → .yml

Converter para .YAML

.csv → .yaml .json → .yaml .ndjson → .yaml .sql → .yaml .toml → .yaml .tsv → .yaml .xml → .yaml .yml → .yaml

Formatos relacionados

.c .cpp .css .csv .go .java .js .json .jsx .less

Termos relacionados

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