[Freeswitch-users] YAML support as an alternative of XML for configuration

[Anthony Minessale]

Thank you for the suggestion.

I am open to many suggestions about FreeSWITCH but the minimal way we use
XML cannot be undone.
I am not sure you actually tried FreeSWITCH very much if you think the XML
is difficult to work with.
Almost every config file that uses xml is still just name value pairs with a
small <> around it.

<param name="minimal_xml_usage" value="true"/>

We actually get yelled at by people for not using it more and saying:

<maximum_xml_usage>true</maximum_xml_usage>

What you may be missing is the point of the XML.
I suggest you read http://www.freeswitch.org/node/123 for a better
explanation and a background.

Really once you learn how the dynamic XML stuff works you will be glad it
exists.

I did design res_config for Asterisk which is still there today.  Maybe you
could get YAML working with
a res_config_yaml, I'm sure they would appreciate it .

Whatever you decide, good luck to ya.


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone -
>
> I really love this project... I love the design you guys took with FS,
> I love the stability, the features, the openness of it, it's the VoIP
> platform I always dreamed of it... FreeSWITCH is what Asterisk should
> have been.
>
> But I just don't like one thing: XML.
>
> I also don't intend to create a flame war or troll with this thread,
> please take this as a suggestion of someone that really wants to use
> FS... XML is the only reason why I still stay with Asterisk, I just
> can't like XML, and I don't like Asterisk as well, I want FreeSWITCH
> stability, features, etc, but I can't like XML, not even if I try to,
> it's too slow to use/write, verbose and complex.
>
> As a sysadmin point of view, I prefer parameter=value but I realize
> the advantages of XML (data serialization, etc), this is also why I
> don't use mod_dialplan_asterisk, because I think it's time for
> something better than INI files, but XML isn't for me, I'm a
> Linux/UNIX guy and I don't want a GUI either, I love CLI, but I want
> something simple to use, read and write, and I think YAML is the best
> of the both worlds.
>
> I would like to have more than one option to configure FreeSWITCH,
> also, not everyone likes to do the same thing the same way and it
> would be really cool if FS gives this freedom to people...
>
> I would really like to see YAML as a configuration option in
> FreeSWITCH, give me this any day and I swear I don't toch Asterisk
> _ever again_, YAML can be used for data serialization and it's more
> simple than XML, Ruby projects like Rails uses it.
>
> Take a look here:
>
> http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/
> http://yaml.org/
>
> "YAML™ (rhymes with "camel") is a human-friendly, cross language,
> Unicode based data serialization language designed around the common
> native data types of agile programming languages. It is broadly useful
> for programming needs ranging from configuration files to Internet
> messaging to object persistence to data auditing. Together with the
> Unicode standard for characters, this specification provides all the
> information necessary to understand YAML Version 1.2 and to create
> programs that process YAML information. "
>
> Please consider it, I'm also willing to pay for a mod_yaml, other than
> this I really love FreeSWITCH and I think it's great, I will switch in
> a heartbeat if you guys add support for it ;-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Diego
>
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