| Copyright | (c) 2013-2016 Brendan Hay |
|---|---|
| License | Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. |
| Maintainer | Brendan Hay <brendan.g.hay@gmail.com> |
| Stability | provisional |
| Portability | non-portable (GHC extensions) |
| Safe Haskell | None |
| Language | Haskell2010 |
Network.AWS.Data.JSON
Description
- class FromJSON a where
- parseJSONText :: FromText a => String -> Value -> Parser a
- eitherDecode :: FromJSON a => ByteString -> Either String a
- eitherDecode' :: FromJSON a => ByteString -> Either String a
- withObject :: String -> (Object -> Parser a) -> Value -> Parser a
- (.:) :: FromJSON a => Object -> Text -> Parser a
- (.:?) :: FromJSON a => Object -> Text -> Parser (Maybe a)
- (.!=) :: Parser (Maybe a) -> a -> Parser a
- eitherParseJSON :: FromJSON a => Object -> Either String a
- (.:>) :: FromJSON a => Object -> Text -> Either String a
- (.?>) :: FromJSON a => Object -> Text -> Either String (Maybe a)
- class ToJSON a where
- toJSON :: a -> Value
- toEncoding :: a -> Encoding
- toJSONList :: [a] -> Value
- toEncodingList :: [a] -> Encoding
- toJSONText :: ToText a => a -> Value
- data Value :: * = Object ~Object
- object :: [Pair] -> Value
- (.=) :: KeyValue kv => forall v. ToJSON v => Text -> v -> kv
FromJSON
A type that can be converted from JSON, with the possibility of failure.
In many cases, you can get the compiler to generate parsing code for you (see below). To begin, let's cover writing an instance by hand.
There are various reasons a conversion could fail. For example, an
Object could be missing a required key, an Array could be of
the wrong size, or a value could be of an incompatible type.
The basic ways to signal a failed conversion are as follows:
emptyandmzerowork, but are terse and uninformativefailyields a custom error messagetypeMismatchproduces an informative message for cases when the value encountered is not of the expected type
An example type and instance:
-- Allow ourselves to writeTextliterals. {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-} data Coord = Coord { x :: Double, y :: Double } instance FromJSON Coord where parseJSON (Objectv) = Coord<$>v.:"x"<*>v.:"y" -- We do not expect a non-Objectvalue here. -- We could usemzeroto fail, buttypeMismatch-- gives a much more informative error message. parseJSON invalid =typeMismatch"Coord" invalid
Instead of manually writing your FromJSON instance, there are two 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:
- The compiler can provide a default generic implementation for
parseJSON.
To use the second, simply add a deriving clause to your
datatype and declare a GenericFromJSON 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 = Coord { x :: Double, y :: Double } deriving Generic
instance FromJSON Coord
If DefaultSignatures doesn't give exactly the results you want,
you can customize the generic decoding with only a tiny amount of
effort, using genericParseJSON with your preferred Options:
instance FromJSON Coord where
parseJSON = genericParseJSON defaultOptions
Minimal complete definition
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Instances
eitherDecode :: FromJSON a => ByteString -> Either String a #
Like decode but returns an error message when decoding fails.
eitherDecode' :: FromJSON a => ByteString -> Either String a #
Like decode' but returns an error message when decoding fails.
Parser a
withObject :: String -> (Object -> Parser a) -> Value -> Parser a #
withObject expected f value applies f to the Object when value is an Object
and fails using typeMismatch expected
(.:) :: FromJSON a => Object -> Text -> Parser a #
Retrieve the value associated with the given key of an Object.
The result is empty if the key is not present or the value cannot
be converted to the desired type.
This accessor is appropriate if the key and value must be present
in an object for it to be valid. If the key and value are
optional, use .:? instead.
(.:?) :: FromJSON a => Object -> Text -> Parser (Maybe a) #
Retrieve the value associated with the given key of an Object. The
result is Nothing if the key is not present or if its value is Null,
or empty if the value cannot be converted to the desired type.
This accessor is most useful if the key and value can be absent
from an object without affecting its validity. If the key and
value are mandatory, use .: instead.
(.!=) :: Parser (Maybe a) -> a -> Parser a #
Helper for use in combination with .:? to provide default
values for optional JSON object fields.
This combinator is most useful if the key and value can be absent
from an object without affecting its validity and we know a default
value to assign in that case. If the key and value are mandatory,
use .: instead.
Example usage:
v1 <- o.:?"opt_field_with_dfl" .!= "default_val" v2 <- o.:"mandatory_field" v3 <- o.:?"opt_field2"
Either String a
ToJSON
A type that can be converted to JSON.
An example type and instance:
-- Allow ourselves to writeTextliterals. {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-} data Coord = Coord { x :: Double, y :: Double } instance ToJSON Coord where toJSON (Coord x y) =object["x".=x, "y".=y] toEncoding (Coord x y) =pairs("x".=x<>"y".=y)
Instead of manually writing your ToJSON instance, there are two 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:
- The compiler can provide a default generic implementation for
toJSON.
To use the second, simply add a deriving clause to your
datatype and declare a GenericToJSON instance for your datatype without giving
definitions for toJSON or toEncoding.
For example, the previous example can be simplified to a more minimal instance:
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}
import GHC.Generics
data Coord = Coord { x :: Double, y :: Double } deriving Generic
instance ToJSON Coord where
toEncoding = genericToEncoding defaultOptions
Why do we provide an implementation for toEncoding here? The
toEncoding function is a relatively new addition to this class.
To allow users of older versions of this library to upgrade without
having to edit all of their instances or encounter surprising
incompatibilities, the default implementation of toEncoding uses
toJSON. This produces correct results, but since it performs an
intermediate conversion to a Value, it will be less efficient
than directly emitting an Encoding. Our one-liner definition of
toEncoding above bypasses the intermediate Value.
If DefaultSignatures doesn't give exactly the results you want,
you can customize the generic encoding with only a tiny amount of
effort, using genericToJSON and genericToEncoding with your
preferred Options:
instance ToJSON Coord where
toJSON = genericToJSON defaultOptions
toEncoding = genericToEncoding defaultOptions
Minimal complete definition
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Instances
toJSONText :: ToText a => a -> Value Source #
A JSON value represented as a Haskell value.