Create object oriented API for perl's YAML::XS module, with YAML 1.2 Support by tinita

Description

YAML::XS is a binding to libyaml and already quite old, but the most popular YAML module for perl. There are two main issues:

• It uses global package variables to influence behaviour.
• It didn't implement the loading of types like numbers and booleans according to the YAML spec (neither 1.1 nor 1.2).

Goals

Create a new interface which works object oriented. Currently YAML::XS exports a list of functions.

• The new API will allow to create a YAML::XS object containing configuration influencing the behaviour of loading and dumping.
  • It keeps the libyaml parser and emitter structs in memory, so repeated calls can save the creation of those structs
• It will by default implement the YAML 1.2 Core Schema, so it is compatible to other YAML processors in perl and in other languages
• If I have time, I would like to add the merge << key feature as an option. We could then use it in openQA as a replacement for YAML::PP to be faster.

I already created a proof of concept with a minimal functionality some weeks before this HackWeek.

Resources

• Work is currently happening on the oop branch

Add a machine-readable output to dmidecode by jdelvare

Description

There have been repeated requests for a machine-friendly dmidecode output over the last decade. During Hack Week 19, 5 years ago, I prepared the code to support alternative output formats, but didn't have the time to go further. Last year, Jiri Hnidek from Red Hat Linux posted a proof-of-concept implementation to add JSON output support. This is a fairly large pull request which needs to be carefully reviewed and tested.

Goals

Review Jiri's work and provide constructive feedback. Merge the code if acceptable. Evaluate the costs and benefits of using a library such as json-c.