#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use YAML::XS;
use YAML::Dumper;

my $ref = YAML::XS::Load(join('',<DATA>));
my $dumper = YAML::Dumper->new;
print $dumper->dump($$ref{'fooUuid'});
print $dumper->dump(ref $$ref{'fooUuid'}); 

__DATA__

---

fooUuid: !java.util.UUID 39809f4e-93b9-11e1-89b4-db41381ff4b7