export function convertJsonSnippetToYaml()

in src/yaml/yamlUtils.ts [288:316]

• 21 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

export function convertJsonSnippetToYaml(snippetText: string) {
    // Convert to YAML with indendation of 1 space
    return safeDump(safeLoad(snippetText), { indent: 1 })
        // Remove quotation marks
        .replace(/[']/g, '')
        .split('\n')
        // For each line replace left padding spaces with tabs
        .map(line => {
            if (line.length) {
                let numOfSpaces = 0

                // Count number of spaces that the line begins with
                for (const char of line) {
                    if (char === ' ') {
                        numOfSpaces++
                    } else {
                        break
                    }
                }

                // Convert each space to tab character. Even though tab carracters are not valid yaml whitespace characters
                // the vscode will convert them to the correct number of spaces according to user preferences.
                return '\t'.repeat(numOfSpaces) + line.slice(numOfSpaces, line.length)
            } else {
                return line
            }
        })
        .join('\n')
}