Can't read nested maps (raises YAML::InvalidScalar) - yaml-cpp

Question

I have a class (contains a few scalar values and a vector of floats) and I want to read and write an instance as the value of another map.
// write
out << YAML::Key << "my_queue" << YAML::Value << my_queue;
// read (other code cut out...)
for (YAML::Iterator it=doc.begin();it!=doc.end();++it)
{
std::string key, value;
it.first() >> key;
it.second() >> value;
if (key.compare("my_queue") == 0) {
*it >> my_queue;
}
}
Writing this class works perfectly, but I can't seem to read it no matter what I do. It keeps throwing an InvalidScalar.
Caught YAML::InvalidScalar yaml-cpp: error at line 20, column 13: invalid scalar
and this is that the output (written with yaml-cpp without it reporting any errors) looks like:
Other Number: 80
my_queue:
size: 20
data:
- 3.5
- -1
- -1.5
- 0.25
- -24.75
- -5.75
- 2.75
- -33.55
- 7.25
- -11
- 15
- 37.5
- -3.75
- -28.25
- 18.5
- 14.25
- -36.5
- 6.75
- -0.75
- 14
max_size: 20
mean: -0.0355586
stdev: 34.8981
even_more_data: 1277150400
The documentation seems to say this is supported usage, a nested map, in this case with a sequence as one of the values. It complains about it being an InvalidScalar, even though the first thing I do it tell it that this is a map:
YAML::Emitter& operator << ( YAML::Emitter& out, const MeanStd& w )
{
out << YAML::BeginMap;
out << YAML::Key << "size";
out << YAML::Value << w.size();
out << YAML::Key << "data";
out << YAML::Value << YAML::BeginSeq;
for(Noor::Number i=0; i<w.size(); ++i) {
out << w[i];
}
out << YAML::EndSeq;
out << YAML::Key << "max_size";
out << YAML::Value << w.get_max_size();
out << YAML::Key << "mean";
out << YAML::Value << w.mean();
out << YAML::Key << "stdev";
out << YAML::Value << w.stdev();
out << YAML::EndMap;
return out;
}
Does anyone see a problem with this?

Answer 1

When you're reading the YAML:
std::string key, value;
it.first() >> key;
it.second() >> value; // ***
if (key.compare("my_queue") == 0) {
*it >> my_queue;
}
The marked line tries to read the value of the key/value pair as a scalar (std::string); that's why it tells you that it's an invalid scalar. Instead, you want:
std::string key, value;
it.first() >> key;
if (key.compare("my_queue") == 0) {
it.second() >> my_queue;
} else {
// ...
// for example: it.second() >> value;
}

Answer 2

YAML::Node internalconfig_yaml = YAML::LoadFile(configFileName);
const YAML::Node &node = internalconfig_yaml["config"];
for(const auto& it : node )
{
std::cout << "\nnested Key: " << it.first.as<std::string>() << "\n";
if (it.second.Type() == YAML::NodeType::Scalar)
{
std::cout << "\nnested value: " << std::to_string(it.second.as<int>()) << "\n";
}
if (it.second.Type() == YAML::NodeType::Sequence)
{
std::vector<std::string> temp_vect;
const YAML::Node &nestd_node2 = it.second;
for(const auto& it2 : nestd_node2)
{
if (*it2)
{
std::cout << "\nnested sequence value: " << it2.as<std::string>() << "\n";
temp_vect.push_back(it2.as<std::string>());
}
}
std::ostringstream oss;
std::copy(temp_vect.begin(), temp_vect.end(),
std::ostream_iterator<std::string>(oss, ","));
std::cout << "\nnested sequence as string: " <<oss.str() << "\n";
}
}
if (it2.second.Type() == YAML::NodeType::Map)
{
// Iterate Recursively again !!
}