Get the value of a key, without a class

[rodrigodevelms]

Is it possible to access the value of a key, without the need for a class?

fun getValueFromYaml ( key: String, yamlPath: String) : String {}

yaml
person:
    name: John
    age:  33
    childrens:
         - John Kid one
         - John kid two

  val name = getValueFromYaml ( "name", "/home/some_user/test.yaml")
  
 println(name)  *** John ****

[charleskorn]

Kaml is not intended to be a general-purpose YAML parsing library - it is intended to be used with kotlinx.serialization to encode / decode to Kotlin types.

A general-purpose YAML parser like SnakeYAML would likely be better suited to what you're trying to do.