decode to `Data.Map String MyRecordType`

[kevinbarabash]

I read through https://qiita.com/kimagure/items/00f97c7fc6cef178fa3c and was able to decode some simple JSON data. I have a JSON file that contains a bunch or records inside an object whose keys are the ids of each record. Is there any way to load this using generics? If not, would it make sense to restructure the JSON file to be an array where each record contains an id field? Can foreign generics handle decoding arrays?

[justinwoo]

First, I think you'd rather use Simple-JSON than foreign-generic to get handling of decoding using a modern library: https://purescript-resources.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Second, you can use Foreign.Object for when you have string keys. Otherwise, you might want to handle this in some other way, where you can still get mostly automatic decoding via https://purescript-simple-json.readthedocs.io/en/latest/inferred-record-types.html

[justinwoo]

Used the wrong key combination and accidentally closed