Re: Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'aeson' library

On 23 September 2013 22:56, Bas van Dijk wrote:

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On 18/09/13 04:02, Dan Burton wrote:

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Everybody already uses, trusts, and loves aeson.

There's only one thing about it that I don't trust:

"Partial instances" that will call error in pure code and crash my

On 18 September 2013 06:30, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: program.

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ByteString has such an instance that simply assumes that ByteString is the same as Text, so it calls Data.Text.Encoding.decodeUtf8 on it.

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Note that Bryan pushed a patch which removes the ByteString instances:

https://github.com/bos/aeson/commit/9ee73f303cacb8ae73b2325f2f47288522607420

I think this is a good change. Now users have to be explicit how they want to encode binary data as JSON.

great, +1 to including the next (major-bumped) version. Conrad.