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 serializing and deserializing a Map[Int,Boolean].
When I try to define my formats via macro like so
implicit val myCaseClass = Json.format[MyCaseClass]
where MyCaseClass has a few string fields, a BSONObjectID field, and a Map[Int,Boolean] field the compiler complains with:
No Json serializer found for type Map[Int,Boolean]. Try to implement an implicit Writes or Format for this type.
No Json deserializer found for type Map[Int,Boolean]. Try to implement an implicit Reads or Format for this type.
Looking at the source code for Play in Reads.scala I see a Reads defined for Map[String,_] but none for Map[Int,_].
Is there a reason why Play has default Read/Writes for string maps but not for other simple types?
I don't fully understand the Map[String,_] defined by play because I am fairly new to scala. How would I go about translating that into a Map[Int,_]? If that is not possible for some technical reason how would I define a Reads/Writes for Map[Int,Boolean]?
you can write your own reads and writes in play.
in your case, this would look like this:
implicit val mapReads: Reads[Map[Int, Boolean]] = new Reads[Map[Int, Boolean]] {
def reads(jv: JsValue): JsResult[Map[Int, Boolean]] =
JsSuccess(jv.as[Map[String, Boolean]].map{case (k, v) =>
Integer.parseInt(k) -> v .asInstanceOf[Boolean]
})
}
implicit val mapWrites: Writes[Map[Int, Boolean]] = new Writes[Map[Int, Boolean]] {
def writes(map: Map[Int, Boolean]): JsValue =
Json.obj(map.map{case (s, o) =>
val ret: (String, JsValueWrapper) = s.toString -> JsBoolean(o)
ret
}.toSeq:_*)
}
implicit val mapFormat: Format[Map[Int, Boolean]] = Format(mapReads, mapWrites)
I have tested it with play 2.3. I'm not sure if it's the best approach to have a Map[Int, Boolean] on server side and a json object with string -> boolean mapping on the client side, though.