Method: Psych.unsafe_load

Defined in:
lib/psych.rb

.unsafe_load(yaml, filename: nil, fallback: false, symbolize_names: false, freeze: false, strict_integer: false) ⇒ Object

Load yaml in to a Ruby data structure. If multiple documents are provided, the object contained in the first document will be returned. filename will be used in the exception message if any exception is raised while parsing. If yaml is empty, it returns the specified fallback return value, which defaults to false.

Raises a Psych::SyntaxError when a YAML syntax error is detected.

Example:

Psych.unsafe_load("--- a")             # => 'a'
Psych.unsafe_load("---\n - a\n - b")   # => ['a', 'b']

begin
  Psych.unsafe_load("--- `", filename: "file.txt")
rescue Psych::SyntaxError => ex
  ex.file    # => 'file.txt'
  ex.message # => "(file.txt): found character that cannot start any token"
end

When the optional symbolize_names keyword argument is set to a true value, returns symbols for keys in Hash objects (default: strings).

Psych.unsafe_load("---\n foo: bar")                         # => {"foo"=>"bar"}
Psych.unsafe_load("---\n foo: bar", symbolize_names: true)  # => {:foo=>"bar"}

Raises a TypeError when ‘yaml` parameter is NilClass

NOTE: This method *should not* be used to parse untrusted documents, such as YAML documents that are supplied via user input. Instead, please use the load method or the safe_load method.



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# File 'lib/psych.rb', line 273

def self.unsafe_load yaml, filename: nil, fallback: false, symbolize_names: false, freeze: false, strict_integer: false
  result = parse(yaml, filename: filename)
  return fallback unless result
  result.to_ruby(symbolize_names: symbolize_names, freeze: freeze, strict_integer: strict_integer)
end