YAML and Rust

YAML is a file format often used as a configuration file. Most of the programming languages have a way to deserialize YAML into some internal data structure. So does Rust via serde.

YAML is a human-readable and human writable file format often used for configuration. I maintain several project where people collect data into thousands of YAML files and the some program collects the data and generats a web site.

This is a collection of articles on dealing with YAML in the Rust programming language.

• Read arbitrary YAML files in Rust without the need to know the whole structure of the file. serde, serde_yaml
• Read a simple, flat YAML file into a struct struct, Deserialize
• Set default values while deserializing YAML default
• Deserializing YAML - deny unknown fields deny_unknown_fields