-- This example is basically the same as in Simplest.hs, only it uses -- GHC's builtin generics instead of explicit instances of ToJSON and -- FromJSON. -- We enable the DeriveGeneric language extension so that GHC can -- automatically derive the Generic class for us. {-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-} {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-} module Main (main) where import Prelude () import Prelude.Compat import Data.Aeson (FromJSON, ToJSON, decode, encode) import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as BL import GHC.Generics (Generic) -- To decode or encode a value using the generic machinery, we must -- make the type an instance of the Generic class. data Coord = Coord { x :: Double, y :: Double } deriving (Show, Generic) -- While we still have to declare our type as instances of FromJSON -- and ToJSON, we do *not* need to provide bodies for the instances. -- Default versions will be supplied for us. instance FromJSON Coord instance ToJSON Coord main :: IO () main = do let req = decode "{\"x\":3.0,\"y\":-1.0}" :: Maybe Coord print req let reply = Coord { x = 123.4, y = 20 } BL.putStrLn (encode reply)