parsers about gray-matter HOT 4 CLOSED

Definitely thought it was sweet when I saw that parsers (and delimiters) were able to be swapped out.

As for what to bundle, I assume you're talking about keeping the yaml parser regardless? Honestly not sure. The js and coffee ones seem a bit opinionated? But built-in json, yaml, toml seems nice for people. Although I'll only ever use yaml like you said. Either just yaml or yaml,json,toml seems right. I guess someone could ask for an xml one, at which point it might be nicer to just have an opinion of only yaml.

Side note: I thought regular JSON was "correct" YAML as well, so technically JSON parsing it automatically handled? I guess the only different is the opening and closing {}. Even the json one might be slightly opinionated in that case, not sure.

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Definitely thought it was sweet when I saw that parsers (and delimiters) were able to be swapped out.

thanks! yeah my inner nerd is resisting taking them out...

I assume you're talking about keeping the yaml parser regardless?

yes, definitely.

The js and coffee ones seem a bit opinionated?

noted. I really wasn't sure what to do when I implemented those. it's funny, I've never even used the coffee parser in project (because I forget about it), but I probably should, when I was writing the tests it was pretty fun defining helpers in the front matter and then using them in the same file.

But built-in json, yaml, toml seems nice for people.

also noted. that seems like a good mix.

thought regular JSON was "correct" YAML as well

but I got all excited about being able to let people use JSON lol.

thanks for the feedback Ian. @doowb any thoughts?

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You're already only requiring js-yaml if it's used and also allowing passing in a parser function opts.fn so I think that should be fine, right?

var myParser = require('my-parser');
var parsed = matter(str, { parser: myParser });

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closing since gray-matter was refactored. custom engines are now supported via options (parsing and stringifying), and some sensible defaults are still included.

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