devel/yaml2argdata 0.4_1 DragonFly

Argdata is a binary serialisation format similar to FreeBSD's nvlists. It differs from nvlists in that it uses data types that are more similar to YAML.

Argdata is used by CloudABI as a replacement for string command line arguments and environment variables. CloudABI processes can start new processes by passing them a YAML-like tree of arguments, having file descriptors of resources annotated to the tree.

This package provides a series of helper classes that are used by utilities like cloudabi-run to parse and translate YAML to Argdata. These classes are useful when building custom utilities for launching CloudABI processes, such as CloudABI's Kubernetes daemon.