purescript-tagged-sum

May 22, 2019 ยท View on GitHub

A simple row-based variant data type, supporting:

  • An Aeson-compatible JSON representation, via foreign-generic
  • (Polymorphic) traversals via Prisms from profunctor-lenses

Example

$ pulp repl

> import Data.Lens (review)
> import Data.Symbol (SProxy(..))
> import Data.TaggedSum (TaggedSum, tag)
> import Foreign.Generic (encodeJSON)

> _foo = SProxy :: SProxy "foo"
> x = review (tag _foo) 42 :: TaggedSum (foo :: Int)
> encodeJSON x
"{\"tag\":\"foo\",\"contents\":42}"