You want this:
AAPL:
- shares: -75.088
date: 11/27/2015
- shares: 75.088
date: 11/26/2015
The YAML equivalent of a JSON object is a mapping, which looks like these:
# flow style
{ foo: 1, bar: 2 }
# block style
foo: 1
bar: 2
Note that the first characters of the keys in a block mapping must be in the same column. To demonstrate:
# OK
foo: 1
bar: 2
# Parse error
foo: 1
bar: 2
The equivalent of a JSON array in YAML is a sequence, which looks like either of these (which are equivalent):
# flow style
[ foo bar, baz ]
# block style
- foo bar
- baz
In a block sequence the -
s must be in the same column.
Let's turn your JSON into YAML. Here's your JSON:
{"AAPL": [
{
"shares": -75.088,
"date": "11/27/2015"
},
{
"shares": 75.088,
"date": "11/26/2015"
},
]}
As a point of trivia, YAML is a superset of JSON, so the above is already valid YAML—but let's actually use YAML's features to make this prettier.
Starting from the inside out, we have objects that look like this:
{
"shares": -75.088,
"date": "11/27/2015"
}
The equivalent YAML mapping is:
shares: -75.088
date: 11/27/2015
We have two of these in an array (sequence):
- shares: -75.088
date: 11/27/2015
- shares: 75.088
date: 11/26/2015
Note how the -
s line up and the first characters of the mapping keys line up.
Finally, this sequence is itself a value in a mapping with the key AAPL
:
AAPL:
- shares: -75.088
date: 11/27/2015
- shares: 75.088
date: 11/26/2015
Parsing this and converting it back to JSON yields the expected result:
{
"AAPL": [
{
"date": "11/27/2015",
"shares": -75.088
},
{
"date": "11/26/2015",
"shares": 75.088
}
]
}
You can see it (and edit it interactively) here.