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Corne Elshof
Corne Elshof

Reputation: 199

Add field to existing JSON object with sprayJSON (scala)

I made a case class to store some of my data. The case class looks like the following:

case class Job(id: Option[Int], title: String, description: Option[String],
              start: Date, end: Option[Date], customerId: Int)

I was using the following formatter to write/read my JSON objects:

implicit val jobFormat = jsonFormat6(Job.apply)

I've got some problems with the write/read because I need to add a field to the JSON (but not to the case class), for example: "test": "test". I tried to write a custom read/write with the following code:

implicit object jobFormat extends RootJsonFormat[Job] {
  override def read(json: JsValue): JobRow = ???

  override def write(job: Job): JsValue = ??
}

I couldn't get the working code, could somebody help me with this problem?

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4316

Answers (1)

Mustafa Simav
Mustafa Simav

Reputation: 1019

What jsonFormat6 does is to create you autogenerated RootJsonFormat[Job] object. You can create your custom instances with extending RootJsonFormat[Job]. In this case, you need to create custom instance that decorates autogenerated one and adds logic on write method.

The code will look like this:

implicit object JobFormat extends RootJsonFormat[Job] {
  // to use autogenerated jobFormat
  val jobFormat = jsonFormat6(Job.apply)

  // leave read at it is
  override def read(json: JsValue): JobRow =
    jobFormat.read(json)

  // Change write to add your custom logic
  override def write(job: Job): JsValue = {
    val json = jobFormat.write(job).asJsonObject
    JsObject(json.fields + ("test" -> JsString("test")))
  }
}

PS: I haven't compiled code, however, overall implementation will look like this.

Upvotes: 7

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