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std/toml/mod.ts

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import * as mod from "https://deno.land/std@0.195.0/toml/mod.ts";

parse and stringify for handling TOML encoded data. Be sure to read the supported types as not every spec is supported at the moment and the handling in TypeScript side is a bit different.

Supported types and handling

:exclamation: Supported with warnings see Warning.

:warning: Warning

String

  • Regex : Due to the spec, there is no flag to detect regex properly in a TOML declaration. So the regex is stored as string.

Integer

For Binary / Octal / Hexadecimal numbers, they are stored as string to be not interpreted as Decimal.

Local Time

Because local time does not exist in JavaScript, the local time is stored as a string.

Inline Table

Inline tables are supported. See below:

animal = { type = { name = "pug" } }
## Output { animal: { type: { name: "pug" } } }
animal = { type.name = "pug" }
## Output { animal: { type : { name : "pug" } }
animal.as.leaders = "tosin"
## Output { animal: { as: { leaders: "tosin" } } }
"tosin.abasi" = "guitarist"
## Output { tosin.abasi: "guitarist" }

Array of Tables

At the moment only simple declarations like below are supported:

[[bin]]
name = "deno"
path = "cli/main.rs"

[[bin]]
name = "deno_core"
path = "src/foo.rs"

[[nib]]
name = "node"
path = "not_found"

will output:

{
  "bin": [
    { "name": "deno", "path": "cli/main.rs" },
    { "name": "deno_core", "path": "src/foo.rs" }
  ],
  "nib": [{ "name": "node", "path": "not_found" }]
}

This module is browser compatible.

Examples

Example 1

import {
  parse,
  stringify,
} from "https://deno.land/std@0.195.0/toml/mod.ts";
const obj = {
  bin: [
    { name: "deno", path: "cli/main.rs" },
    { name: "deno_core", path: "src/foo.rs" },
  ],
  nib: [{ name: "node", path: "not_found" }],
};
const tomlString = stringify(obj);
console.log(tomlString);

// =>
// [[bin]]
// name = "deno"
// path = "cli/main.rs"

// [[bin]]
// name = "deno_core"
// path = "src/foo.rs"

// [[nib]]
// name = "node"
// path = "not_found"

const tomlObject = parse(tomlString);
console.log(tomlObject);

// =>
// {
//   bin: [
//     { name: "deno", path: "cli/main.rs" },
//     { name: "deno_core", path: "src/foo.rs" }
//   ],
//   nib: [ { name: "node", path: "not_found" } ]
// }

Variables

Parse parses TOML string into an object.

Functions

Stringify dumps source object into TOML string and returns it.