Github user neykov commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/pull/930#issuecomment-145444486
* The text which comes from the REST API is valid YAML, not JSON (JSON is a
subset of YAML). You can do
```
var bp = jsyaml.load("services: [{ type:
org.apache.brooklyn.entity.brooklynnode.BrooklynEntityMirror }]");
jsyaml.dump(bp);
```
which will spit out:
```
services:
- type: org.apache.brooklyn.entity.brooklynnode.BrooklynEntityMirror
```
Both of them are YAML, the latter one being idiomatic. But the `yamlPlan`
is not useful in this case because:
* The `yamlPlan` of catalog items is the plan used to create the item, not
example usage. Try dropping `1-server-template:0.9.0-SNAPSHOT` from the default
catalog for example to see what I mean. What should be dropped instead is how
the item is to be used, which is just the `symbolicName:version` pair.
Having the config keys as part of the pasted data is a good idea, but this
is not available from the REST API. It can still be obtained though, for
example [the catalog
docs](https://brooklyn.incubator.apache.org/learnmore/catalog/) extract the
information offline, using the CLI item-lister command.
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