How to correct this YAML Format Error? - yaml

Question

I have been working on defining a new YAML document, but when trying to process the file, I receive the following error from yamllint:
>syntax error on line 3, col 10: ` suites: '
and the following error in PyCharm when running tests:
ScannerError: mapping values are not allowed here
in "<string>", line 2, column 11:
name: testFirstNameLower
for the following code:
DataMart\Users:
name: testFirstNameLower
suites:
- suite: dataMart
- suite: userDim
dataset:
source: etlUnitTest
table: users
It looks like it is formatted correctly, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong...

Answer 1

If your DataMart\Users is supposed to contain a sequence of users, with each user having a name, sequence of suites, and a dataset, you're just doing a little too much indenting, and aren't handling each user as a series. (This online parser is typically what I use when handling yaml.)
Try this instead:
DataMart\Users:
- name: testFirstNameLower
suites:
- suite: dataMart
- suite: userDim
dataset:
source: etlUnitTest
table: users
...which corresponds to the following json:
{
"DataMart\\Users": [
{
"name": "testFirstNameLower",
"suites": [
{
"suite": "dataMart"
},
{
"suite": "userDim"
}
],
"dataset": {
"source": "etlUnitTest",
"table": "users"
}
}
]
}
Here's some yaml with a second example user added:
DataMart\Users:
- name: testFirstNameLower
suites:
- suite: dataMart
- suite: userDim
dataset:
source: etlUnitTest
table: users
- name: secondname
suites:
- suite: secondDataMart
- suite: secondUserDim
dataset:
source: secondEtlUnitTest
table: secondUsers