Spotting non-default properties in Perspective views

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Not actually an implementation of the "tool that goes backwards", but I got a smarter YAML library that allowed me to handle multi-line text blobs intelligently. I can now do:

  1. json2yaml view.json > v.yml
  2. edit v.yml in my favorite power editor including full script blocks
  3. yaml2json v.yml > view.json

My editor doesn't recognize the scripts blobs as Python blocks, but ... I can do sane search-replace or other editing across all scripts in a view from one place and see what is happening w/o going crazy!

This has some promise...

The tricky bit was telling the YAML library which text blocks to force to the escaped multiline format:

import ruamel.yaml as yaml

def str_presenter(dumper, data):
  if '\n' in data or '\t' in data: # check for complex or multiline strings
    return dumper.represent_scalar('tag:yaml.org,2002:str', data, style='|')
  return dumper.represent_scalar('tag:yaml.org,2002:str', data)
yaml.add_representer(str, str_presenter)

Here's a github gist of the whole json2yaml.