Scala 2.10 + Json serialization and deserialization

Question

Scala 2.10 seems to have broken some of the old libraries (at least for the time being) like Jerkson and lift-json.

The target usability is as follows:

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Answer 1

I can heartily recommend argonaut for json support in scala. All you need to configure it to serialize your Customer object is one line:

implicit lazy val CodecCustomer: CodecJson[Customer] =
casecodec6(Customer.apply, Customer.unapply)("id","name","address","city","state","user_id")

That will pimp your class to give it an .asJson method which turns it into a string. It will also pimp the string class to give it a method .decodeOption[List[Customer]] to parse strings. It handles the options in your class fine. Here is a working class with a passing test and a running main method which you can drop into a git clone of argonaut to see it all working fine:

package argonaut.example

import org.specs2.{ScalaCheck, Specification}
import argonaut.CodecJson
import argonaut.Argonaut._

case class Customer(id: Int, name: String, address: Option[String],
                    city: Option[String], state: Option[String], user_id: Int)

class CustomerExample extends Specification with ScalaCheck {

  import CustomerExample.CodecCustomer
  import CustomerExample.customers

  def is = "Stackoverflow question 12591457 example" ^
    "round trip customers to and from json strings " ! {
      customers.asJson.as[List[Customer]].toOption must beSome(customers)
    }
}

object CustomerExample {

  implicit lazy val CodecCustomer: CodecJson[Customer] =
    casecodec6(Customer.apply, Customer.unapply)("id","name","address","city","state","user_id")

  val customers = List(
    Customer(1,"one",Some("one street"),Some("one city"),Some("one state"),1)
    , Customer(2,"two",None,Some("two city"),Some("two state"),2)
    , Customer(3,"three",Some("three address"),None,Some("three state"),3)
    , Customer(4,"four",Some("four address"),Some("four city"),None,4)
  )

  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {

    println(s"Customers converted into json string:\n ${customers.asJson}")

    val jsonString =
      """[
        |   {"city":"one city","name":"one","state":"one state","user_id":1,"id":1,"address":"one street"}
        |   ,{"city":"two city","name":"two","state":"two state","user_id":2,"id":2}
        |   ,{"name":"three","state":"three state","user_id":3,"id":3,"address":"three address"}
        |   ,{"city":"four city","name":"four","user_id":4,"id":4,"address":"four address"}
        |]""".stripMargin


    var parsed: Option[List[Customer]] = jsonString.decodeOption[List[Customer]]

    println(s"Json string turned back into customers:\n ${parsed.get}")

  }
}

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