{-# LANGUAGE CPP, FlexibleContexts #-} #ifdef GENERICS {-# LANGUAGE DefaultSignatures #-} #endif -- | -- Module: Data.Aeson.Types.Class -- Copyright: (c) 2011-2013 Bryan O'Sullivan -- (c) 2011 MailRank, Inc. -- License: Apache -- Maintainer: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> -- Stability: experimental -- Portability: portable -- -- Types for working with JSON data. module Data.Aeson.Types.Class ( -- * Type classes -- ** Core JSON classes FromJSON(..) , ToJSON(..) #ifdef GENERICS -- ** Generic JSON classes , GFromJSON(..) , GToJSON(..) , genericToJSON , genericParseJSON #endif ) where import Data.Aeson.Types.Internal #ifdef GENERICS import GHC.Generics -- | Class of generic representation types ('Rep') that can be converted to JSON. class GToJSON f where -- | This method (applied to 'defaultOptions') is used as the -- default generic implementation of 'toJSON'. gToJSON :: Options -> f a -> Value -- | Class of generic representation types ('Rep') that can be converted from JSON. class GFromJSON f where -- | This method (applied to 'defaultOptions') is used as the -- default generic implementation of 'parseJSON'. gParseJSON :: Options -> Value -> Parser (f a) -- | A configurable generic JSON encoder. This function applied to -- 'defaultOptions' is used as the default for 'toJSON' when the type -- is an instance of 'Generic'. genericToJSON :: (Generic a, GToJSON (Rep a)) => Options -> a -> Value genericToJSON opts = gToJSON opts . from -- | A configurable generic JSON decoder. This function applied to -- 'defaultOptions' is used as the default for 'parseJSON' when the -- type is an instance of 'Generic'. genericParseJSON :: (Generic a, GFromJSON (Rep a)) => Options -> Value -> Parser a genericParseJSON opts = fmap to . gParseJSON opts #endif -- | A type that can be converted to JSON. -- -- An example type and instance: -- -- @{-\# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-} -- -- data Coord { x :: Double, y :: Double } -- -- instance ToJSON Coord where -- toJSON (Coord x y) = 'object' [\"x\" '.=' x, \"y\" '.=' y] -- @ -- -- Note the use of the @OverloadedStrings@ language extension which enables -- 'Text' values to be written as string literals. -- -- Instead of manually writing your 'ToJSON' instance, there are three options -- to do it automatically: -- -- * "Data.Aeson.TH" provides template-haskell functions which will derive an -- instance at compile-time. The generated instance is optimized for your type -- so will probably be more efficient than the following two options: -- -- * "Data.Aeson.Generic" provides a generic @toJSON@ function that accepts any -- type which is an instance of 'Data'. -- -- * If your compiler has support for the @DeriveGeneric@ and -- @DefaultSignatures@ language extensions (GHC 7.2 and newer), -- @toJSON@ will have a default generic implementation. -- -- To use the latter option, simply add a @deriving 'Generic'@ clause to your -- datatype and declare a @ToJSON@ instance for your datatype without giving a -- definition for @toJSON@. -- -- For example the previous example can be simplified to just: -- -- @{-\# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric \#-} -- -- import GHC.Generics -- -- data Coord { x :: Double, y :: Double } deriving Generic -- -- instance ToJSON Coord -- @ -- -- Note that, instead of using @DefaultSignatures@, it's also possible -- to parameterize the generic encoding using 'genericToJSON' applied -- to your encoding/decoding 'Options': -- -- @ -- instance ToJSON Coord where -- toJSON = 'genericToJSON' 'defaultOptions' -- @ class ToJSON a where toJSON :: a -> Value #ifdef GENERICS default toJSON :: (Generic a, GToJSON (Rep a)) => a -> Value toJSON = genericToJSON defaultOptions #endif -- | A type that can be converted from JSON, with the possibility of -- failure. -- -- When writing an instance, use 'empty', 'mzero', or 'fail' to make a -- conversion fail, e.g. if an 'Object' is missing a required key, or -- the value is of the wrong type. -- -- An example type and instance: -- -- @{-\# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-} -- -- data Coord { x :: Double, y :: Double } -- -- instance FromJSON Coord where -- parseJSON ('Object' v) = Coord '<$>' -- v '.:' \"x\" '<*>' -- v '.:' \"y\" -- -- \-- A non-'Object' value is of the wrong type, so use 'mzero' to fail. -- parseJSON _ = 'mzero' -- @ -- -- Note the use of the @OverloadedStrings@ language extension which enables -- 'Text' values to be written as string literals. -- -- Instead of manually writing your 'FromJSON' instance, there are three options -- to do it automatically: -- -- * "Data.Aeson.TH" provides template-haskell functions which will derive an -- instance at compile-time. The generated instance is optimized for your type -- so will probably be more efficient than the following two options: -- -- * "Data.Aeson.Generic" provides a generic @fromJSON@ function that parses to -- any type which is an instance of 'Data'. -- -- * If your compiler has support for the @DeriveGeneric@ and -- @DefaultSignatures@ language extensions, @parseJSON@ will have a default -- generic implementation. -- -- To use this, simply add a @deriving 'Generic'@ clause to your datatype and -- declare a @FromJSON@ instance for your datatype without giving a definition -- for @parseJSON@. -- -- For example the previous example can be simplified to just: -- -- @{-\# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric \#-} -- -- import GHC.Generics -- -- data Coord { x :: Double, y :: Double } deriving Generic -- -- instance FromJSON Coord -- @ -- -- Note that, instead of using @DefaultSignatures@, it's also possible -- to parameterize the generic decoding using 'genericParseJSON' applied -- to your encoding/decoding 'Options': -- -- @ -- instance FromJSON Coord where -- parseJSON = 'genericParseJSON' 'defaultOptions' -- @ class FromJSON a where parseJSON :: Value -> Parser a #ifdef GENERICS default parseJSON :: (Generic a, GFromJSON (Rep a)) => Value -> Parser a parseJSON = genericParseJSON defaultOptions #endif