[dehrmann]

It sort of sounds like you want a ~yaml config that's unmarshaled to an object.

[msgodel]

LMAO that's exactly the kind of pattern I'm ranting about. I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not.

[dehrmann]

I don't mean to a hashmap; I meant to a pojo/dataclass/whatever.

[msgodel]

Sure but it's the overly general hashmap based interfaces everywhere which includes these canned serialization formats that's the issue. Someone else in this thread posted noyaml.com which is a great summary of the issue there.