`dasel put --type string` not working when converting to yaml

[DeluxeOwl]

`dasel put --type string` not working when converting to yaml

[TomWright]

I think this is a quoting issue. I'll take a look and potentially add some more flags to enable/disable string quoting when writing values.

[TomWright]

I've been on holiday but will try to add the flag mentioned above once I've caught up with work

[TomWright]

tom ~ $ dasel -v
dasel version 2.3.5
tom ~ $ echo 'annotations:
  previousShortSHA: old' | dasel put -r yaml -t string -v '1615' 'annotations.previousShortSHA'
annotations:
    previousShortSHA: "1615"

[Argelbargel]

Hi. I've got a similar problem. I'm modifying an existing YAML file adding some keys. After writing it out as YAML empty string are converted to nil/null instead of empty strings. So this:

empty_value: ""

is converted to

empty_value:

which ist okay most of the time - except when the code reading the YAML checks explicitly for the empty string. So keeping the type/quoting empty values would be a great option

[TomWright]

I've added a fix in a way that avoids the need for a new flag. This will be released in the next version.