From 797f482fe89cf9af1467fc0e7f0707d8c5e4141f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tenderlove <tenderlove@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:57:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * lib/psych.rb: Fix problem with empty and white-space only
 strings.   Thanks Peter McLain! * test/psych/test_psych.rb: tests for change.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@27099 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
---
 ChangeLog                | 6 ++++++
 lib/psych.rb             | 6 ++++--
 test/psych/test_psych.rb | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dca56eba02..9f541a671e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Tue Mar 30 08:10:59 2010  Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>
+
+	* lib/psych.rb: Fix problem with empty and white-space only strings.
+	  Thanks Peter McLain!
+	* test/psych/test_psych.rb: tests for change.
+
 Tue Mar 30 05:31:39 2010  Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>
 
 	* lib/psych.rb: documentation updates.  Thanks Peter McLain!
diff --git a/lib/psych.rb b/lib/psych.rb
index 574bc7e641..c14259373a 100644
--- a/lib/psych.rb
+++ b/lib/psych.rb
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ module Psych
   #   Psych.load("--- a")           # => 'a'
   #   Psych.load("---\n - a\n - b") # => ['a', 'b']
   def self.load yaml
-    parse(yaml).to_ruby
+    result = parse(yaml)
+    result ? result.to_ruby : result
   end
 
   ###
@@ -113,7 +114,8 @@ module Psych
   #
   # See Psych::Nodes for more information about YAML AST.
   def self.parse yaml
-    parse_stream(yaml).children.first.children.first
+    children = parse_stream(yaml).children
+    children.empty? ? false : children.first.children.first
   end
 
   ###
diff --git a/test/psych/test_psych.rb b/test/psych/test_psych.rb
index fce070fa39..88fe83c19a 100644
--- a/test/psych/test_psych.rb
+++ b/test/psych/test_psych.rb
@@ -66,4 +66,11 @@ class TestPsych < Psych::TestCase
 
     assert_equal 'hello world', Psych.parse_file(name).transform
   end
+
+  def test_degenerate_strings
+    assert_equal false, Psych.load('    ')
+    assert_equal false, Psych.parse('   ')
+    assert_equal false, Psych.load('')
+    assert_equal false, Psych.parse('')
+  end
 end