Is it possible to embed YAML into a JSON payload?

Question

Is it possible to embed YAML into a JSON payload? And if so, How?

I'm trying to come up with a JSON request which has a embedded YAML embedded, a very large YAML file at that:

    {
      "deployment":{
           "family":"mui",
           "assemblyfile": "large YAML file here"
       }
    }

Answer 1

So, apperently the question is about how to quote/escape the embedded text (YAML).

Try out jq, it offers a lot of sophisticated operations. This should do the trick:

# return your text properly escaped in "" quotes
jq --raw-input --slurp < file.yaml