Excellent, thanks a lot Adam. I'll open a PR when I'm through with this
project :)
Adam Gundry
Hi Karsten,
This isn't very well documented, but there is a (hidden) feature of api-tools that should do what you want. If you say something like
mt :: MyTime = basic string with inj_MyTime, prj_MyTime
then you can define your own type MyTime and give conversion functions inj_MyTime and prj_MyTime to convert back and forth from a newtype-wrapped Text. (In fact, you could probably use UTCTime as MyTime...). More precisely, api-tools will generate something like
newtype REP__MyTime = REP__MyTime Text
and you will need to implement
inj_MyTime :: REP__MyTime -> ParserWithErrs MyTime prj_MyTime :: MyTime -> REP__MyTime
I hope this helps, and further questions or documentation contributions are very welcome!
Cheers,
Adam
On 09/09/14 14:02, Karsten Gebbert wrote:
Hi All,
I have a question concerning the api-tools package.
Its not clear from the tests, sources or the tutorial how I can use other date/time formats that the default `utc` type can handle. I'm trying to wrap a JSON API that is not under my control, so I have to adhere to whatever I get back from it. Could anybody with experience with the package point me to some example, relevant bits in the sources or a tip how to do it?
I'm planning to create some more documentation around the package to contribute back once I figured out a few more details, because I think its quite a useful abstraction when dealing with (foreign) APIs IMO.
Thanks already for any hints,
karsten
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