Data.Aeson.Encode.Pretty

aeson-pretty-0.8.2: JSON pretty-printing library and command-line tool.

Safe Haskell | None
Language | Haskell98

Data.Aeson.Encode.Pretty

Contents

- Simple Pretty-Printing
- Pretty-Printing with Configuration Options
  - Sorting Keys in Objects

Description

Aeson-compatible pretty-printing of JSON `Value`s.

Synopsis

- encodePretty :: ToJSON a => a -> ByteString
- encodePrettyToTextBuilder :: ToJSON a => a -> Builder
- encodePretty' :: ToJSON a => Config -> a -> ByteString
- encodePrettyToTextBuilder' :: ToJSON a => Config -> a -> Builder
- data Config = Config {
  - confIndent :: Indent
  - confCompare :: Text -> Text -> Ordering
  - confNumFormat :: NumberFormat
  }
- defConfig :: Config
- data Indent
  - = Spaces Int
  - | Tab
- data NumberFormat
  - = Generic
  - | Scientific
  - | Decimal
  - | Custom (Scientific -> Builder)
- mempty :: Monoid a => a
- compare :: Ord a => a -> a -> Ordering
- keyOrder :: [Text] -> Text -> Text -> Ordering

# Simple Pretty-Printing

encodePretty :: ToJSON a => a -> ByteString #

A drop-in replacement for aeson's `encode` function, producing JSON-ByteStrings for human readers.

Follows the default configuration in `defConfig`.

encodePrettyToTextBuilder :: ToJSON a => a -> Builder #

A drop-in replacement for aeson's `encodeToTextBuilder` function, producing JSON-ByteStrings for human readers.

Follows the default configuration in `defConfig`.

# Pretty-Printing with Configuration Options

encodePretty' :: ToJSON a => Config -> a -> ByteString #

A variant of `encodePretty` that takes an additional configuration parameter.

encodePrettyToTextBuilder' :: ToJSON a => Config -> a -> Builder #

A variant of `encodeToTextBuilder` that takes an additional configuration parameter.

data Config #

Constructors

Config |
Fields confIndent :: Indent Indentation per level of nesting confCompare :: Text -> Text -> Ordering Function used to sort keys in objects confNumFormat :: NumberFormat

defConfig :: Config #

The default configuration: indent by four spaces per level of nesting, do not sort objects by key.

    defConfig = Config { confIndent = 4, confCompare = mempty, confNumFormat = Generic }

data Indent #

Indentation per level of nesting. ``Spaces` 0` removes all whitespace from the output.

Constructors

Spaces Int |
Tab |

data NumberFormat #

Constructors

Generic | The standard behaviour of the `encode` function. Uses integer literals for integers (1, 2, 3...), simple decimals for fractional values between 0.1 and 9,999,999, and scientific notation otherwise.
Scientific | Scientific notation (e.g. 2.3e123).
Decimal | Standard decimal notation
Custom (Scientific -> Builder) | Custom formatting function

## Sorting Keys in Objects

With the Aeson library, the order of keys in objects is undefined due to objects being implemented as HashMaps. To allow user-specified key orders in the pretty-printed JSON, `encodePretty'` can be configured with a comparison function. These comparison functions can be composed using the `Monoid` interface. Some other useful helper functions to keep in mind are `comparing` and `on`.

Consider the following deliberately convoluted example, demonstrating the use of comparison functions:

An object might pretty-print as follows

    {
      "baz": ...,
      "bar": ...,
      "foo": ...,
      "quux": ...,
    }

which is clearly a confusing order of keys. By using a comparison function such as

    comp :: Text -> Text -> Ordering
    comp = keyOrder ["foo","bar"] `mappend` comparing length

we can achieve the desired neat result:

    {
      "foo": ...,
      "bar": ...,
      "baz": ...,
      "quux": ...,
    }

mempty :: Monoid a => a #

Identity of `mappend`

Serves as an order-preserving (non-)sort function. Re-exported from Data.Monoid.

compare :: Ord a => a -> a -> Ordering #

Sort keys in their natural order, i.e. by comparing character codes. Re-exported from the Prelude and Data.Ord

keyOrder :: [Text] -> Text -> Text -> Ordering #

Sort keys by their order of appearance in the argument list.

Keys that are not present in the argument list are considered to be greater than any key in the list and equal to all keys not in the list. I.e. keys not in the argument list are moved to the end, while their order is preserved.