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Fortran-YAML

Fortran-YAML implements a sub-set of the YAML specification in a Fortran library.

Used by e.g. FABM to read the run-time bio-geochemical configuration file fabm.yaml and to read output configuration for the flexible_output system optionally used in GOTM and GETM.

The YAML figure is taken from here

Source code repository is here and documentation is here.

This is a lightweight YAML parser written in object-oriented Fortran.

Features

This parser handles a subset of YAML only, currently subject to the following limitations:

  • Only block style is supported for mappings and sequences; flow style is not.
  • All scalars are left as strings; interpreting them as native data types is left to the caller. Thus, keys in the (key : value) pairs of a mapping are strings by definition.
  • Use of quotes around strings is not supported.
  • Multi-line strings are not supported.

Comments (starting with #) are allowed. As per the YAML specification, indentation must consist of spaces only (no tabs!)

For instance:

instances:
  P1:
    model: pml/ersem/vphyt
    parameters:
      mu_max: 2.2
      K: 1
    coupling:
      R: pom/R6

While this is not an attempt to write a complete YAML parser in Fortran, it is meant to only accept documents that are valid YAML. If you find that this parser permits constructs that the YAML specification disallows (but not vice versa), please contact the author.

This software is copyright 2013-2016 Bolding & Bruggeman ApS.

This is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. A copy of the license is provided in the COPYING file.

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