Read and write YAML in AL using JsonObject
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
Business value
When using data-driven testing, especially for testing Copilot features, there can be a need to read YAML test data. Rather than building an entirely new YAML object model, the existing JSON support is extended so that YAML can be read into the JsonObject, manipulated as JSON with the JsonObject API, and possibly written out again as YAML.
Feature details
The existing JsonObject is extended so that YAML can be read into the JsonObject, manipulated as JSON with the JsonObject API, and possibly written out again as YAML.
Two new methods are added to read YAML into a JsonObject instance:
[Ok :=] ReadFromYaml(String)
[Ok :=] ReadFromYaml(InStream)
Two new methods are added to write a JsonObject instance as YAML:
[Ok :=] WriteToYaml(String)
[Ok :=] WriteToYaml(OutStream)
Note
This was also backported to version 14.3 of the compiler, in 2024 release wave 2.
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