Question

I am building an intial-data.yml file to test my Play! application, but when I try to load the page, I get an error as it is reading through the intial-data.yml file. It seems to be able to parse the username, firstname, and lastname fields, but when it gets to the email, it spits out the following error:

play.exceptions.YAMLException: null; mapping values are not allowed here (in file /conf/initial-data.yml line 7, column 11)
    at play.test.Fixtures.loadModels(Fixtures.java:234)
    at Bootstrap.doJob(Bootstrap.java:12)
    at play.jobs.Job.doJobWithResult(Job.java:50)
    at play.jobs.Job.call(Job.java:146)
    at Invocation.Job(Play!)
Caused by: mapping values are not allowed here
 in "<reader>", line 7, column 11:
         email:     [e-mail]
              ^

The first entry in my YML file looks like the following:

# Test data

User(Dan):
    username:   Username1
    fname:      John
    lname:      Doe
     email:     [e-mail]
     password:     password1

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Answer 1

Works OK if you align the columns (email and password have an extra 1-space indent in your example):

# Test data

User(Dan):
    username:   Username1
    fname:      John
    lname:      Doe
    email:     [e-mail]
    password:     password1

This online parser is useful for debugging…