Please provide output format settings

[Vampire]

It would be nice if it were possible to be able to influence output format settings like indentation depth, width for line-breaks and similar. Not everyone is happy with SnakeYamls defaults. :-)

[charleskorn]

Hey @Vampire, thanks for the feedback. Do these correspond with snakeyaml's setIndent and setWidth methods on DumpSettingsBuilder, or are you after something else?

[Vampire]

I guess so, I'm not familiar with SnakeYaml, but I'd like to be able to configure everything format-related the underlying emitter supports.
I'm for example using kaml to read in a GitHub workflow file that has many anchors in it which is not supported by GitHub yet.
But I would need many repetition without anchors and I don't like that.
So I used anchors and now use kaml to read in the file and thereby resolve the anchors and then write out the file again.
So I'm not producing some protocol payload but a file that is checked into version control.
And with the default settings, this file looks not too nice.
By being able to change the output options I hope being able to produce a bit better readable result.

[charleskorn]

@Vampire I've added support for both of those settings, and I'll release a new version soon. Please take a look and let me know if there are further options you would like to see.

[bristermitten]

To build on this, it would be nice if we could customise the output style of sequences (between block style and flow style).
The system I'm working on expects them in flow style, so unit tests fail (since they literally compare the yaml contents)

I appreciate this isn't a fault of Kaml, but it would be a nice option to have nonetheless

[charleskorn]

Given there's been no activity on this issue for a while and two PRs have been merged for it, I'm going to go ahead and close this issue. If there are other formatting options you'd like to see, please open a new issue.