No way to specify objects that have attributes and support iteration

[thibaudcolas]

In GitLab by @bcdickinson on Dec 19, 2017, 22:15

Motivating example from: search results. search_results value is both iterated and accessed with dot notation:

{% for result in search_results %}

{% if search_results.paginator.count %}

The YAML format doesn't support specifying values that behave this way. A possible suggestion would be to allow numeric keys in the YAML e.g.

search_results:
  paginator:
    count: 42
  0: ... # result 1
  1: ... # result 2
  ...

[thibaudcolas]

This seems like a fairly common scenario, that should at least be documented.

[thibaudcolas]

Mentioned in the docs as of #131.