[Haskell-beginners] Aeson: parsing json with 'data' field

[Miro Karpis]

thank you, that helped ;-)

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Derek McLoughlin <derek.mcloughlin at gmail.com
> wrote:

> {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
>
> import Data.Aeson ((.:), (.:?), decode, FromJSON(..), Value(..))
> import Control.Applicative ((<$>), (<*>))
> import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as BS
>
> data Foo = Foo {
>               _data :: String -- call it anything you like
>            }
>            deriving (Show)
>
> instance FromJSON Foo where
>   parseJSON (Object v) =
>     Foo <$>
>     (v .: "data")
>
> Testing:
>
> ghci> let json = BS.pack "{\"data\":\"hello\"}"
> ghci> let (Just x) = decode json :: Maybe Foo|
> ghci> x
> Foo {_data = "hello"}
>
>
>
> On 4 October 2014 08:07, Miro Karpis <miroslav.karpis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > please can you help me with this.......I have a json file which contains
> a
> > field with name "data". Problem is that I can not create a data type with
> > "data", (or can I)? How else can I handle this? I know I can convert all
> > json to Object and then search for the field....but I was hoping for some
> > friendly/easier option.
> >
> >
> > json example:
> >
> > {
> >   "data" : {
> >     "foo" : "bar"
> >   }
> > }
> >
> >
> > below definition returns: parse error on input ‘data’
> > data Foo = Foo {
> >   data :: String
> > }
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Miro
> >
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