Formats

This configuration class allows multiple formats to be used.

The following table will give a short comparison.

Format	Readable	Comments	Arrays	Deep	Calc	Ref.
JSON	++	no	yes	yes	no	no
JS	++	allow	yes	yes	read	no
CSON	+++	allow	yes	yes	no	no
Coffee	+++	allow	yes	yes	read	no
YAML	+++	allow	yes	yes	no	read
INI	++	allow	yes	yes	no	no
Properties	++	allow	yes	yes	no	read
XML	+	allow	yes	yes	no	no
BSON	–	no	yes	yes	no	no
CSV	+	(no)	yes	(yes)	no	no

Legend: +++ to — = good to bad; no = not possible; allow = allowed but unused; read = only red but not written; write = only written but not red; yes = fully supported; ? = unknown

See details for each format below.

Some of the formats support comments but they won’t read or write them, they only will allow them to be there in the file.