Play JSON formatter for Map[Int,_]

Question

I am attempting to migrate a Rails/Mongodb application to Play 2.3 using play-reactivemongo and reactivemongo-extensions. In modeling my data I am running across a problem s

Answer 1

Thanks to Seth Tisue. This is my "generics" (half) way.

"half" because it does not handle a generic key. one can copy paste and replace the "Long" with "Int"

"Summary" is a type I've wanted to serialize (and it needed its own serializer)

/** this is how to create reader and writer or format for Maps*/
//  implicit val mapReads: Reads[Map[Long, Summary]] = new MapLongReads[Summary]
//  implicit val mapWrites: Writes[Map[Long, Summary]] = new MapLongWrites[Summary]
implicit val mapLongSummaryFormat: Format[Map[Long, Summary]] = new MapLongFormats[Summary]

This is the required implementation:

class MapLongReads[T]()(implicit reads: Reads[T]) extends Reads[Map[Long, T]] {
  def reads(jv: JsValue): JsResult[Map[Long, T]] =
    JsSuccess(jv.as[Map[String, T]].map{case (k, v) =>
      k.toString.toLong -> v .asInstanceOf[T]
    })
}

class MapLongWrites[T]()(implicit writes: Writes[T])  extends Writes[Map[Long, T]] {
  def writes(map: Map[Long, T]): JsValue =
    Json.obj(map.map{case (s, o) =>
      val ret: (String, JsValueWrapper) = s.toString -> Json.toJson(o)
      ret
    }.toSeq:_*)
}

class MapLongFormats[T]()(implicit format: Format[T]) extends Format[Map[Long, T]]{
  override def reads(json: JsValue): JsResult[Map[Long, T]] = new MapLongReads[T].reads(json)
  override def writes(o: Map[Long, T]): JsValue = new MapLongWrites[T].writes(o)
}