Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'aeson' library

[Bas van Dijk]

On 18 September 2013 06:30, Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> wrote:
> On 18/09/13 04:02, Dan Burton wrote:
>> 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 program.
>
> ByteString has such an instance that simply assumes that ByteString is
> the same as Text, so it calls Data.Text.Encoding.decodeUtf8 on it.
>
> https://github.com/bos/aeson/issues/126

What about settling that issue by adding documentation to the ToJSON
ByteString instance and the 'encode' function warning users about
this?

Bas