Andrey Somov

@grigorig : (I am one of those who disabled IP6 in order to use Streisand) Can you please provide a descriptions of steps to follow your proposal ?

Even if Jackon finds a way to create API to emit comments, SnakeYAML explicitly does not support dumping comments. It is not supported by the YAML spec.

@cowtowncoder : XML has comments as part of the spec. YAML explicitly [ignores the comments.](http://yaml.org/spec/1.1/#id864687)

The spec says that the generation must be controlled by the composed Node tree. The comments are not part of the Node tree. You can see that as the white...

I do not know any tool which can generate comments.

Where do you see that they are a part of the tree? This is what the spec says: Comments are a presentation detail and **must not have any effect on...

1. this is the issue tracker for jackson 2. SnakeYAML is not written in stone, it can be changed if we know how. 3. You said there is already a...

Than I do not get the reason to start the conversation here (with the references to the spec).

> I just wanted to throw few ideas here (like passing that comments object next to nodes, as this seems to be fine with specification?), . > > Sorry then...

@cowtowncoder SnakeYAML Engine[ is going to support dumping comments. ](https://bitbucket.org/asomov/snakeyaml-engine/pull-requests/1) I wonder if we can somehow use it in Jackson. @lovasko @GotoFinal @IhToN can you try to marry the new...