How do I encode an enum in circe style?

[krux02]

Currently I have an enum that is stored in the database like this {"EnumValue":{}} instead of "EnumValue" or {"type":"EnumValue"}. This style comes from circe serialization. Is there an easy option to get this style of serilization with jsoniter as well? I know by now how I can write my own custom serializer, but maybe there is an easier way to make this happen by default with more types.

I have another small question. I've tried several times to call JsoniterCodecMaker.make[MyType](myConfig), the function does exist, but I get weird compilation errors about compilation that I don't understand. I didn't figure out yet how to actually pass a config to make. Is there an explanation for that?

[plokhotnyuk]

Hi, Arne! Thanks for your feedback again!

There are a couple of special macros for derivation of codecs that are compatible with circe: JsoniterCodecMaker.makeCirceLike and JsoniterCodecMaker.makeCirceLikeSnakeCased.

But currently they do not work properly with Scala objects. I'm going to fix it and cut a new release ASAP.

Using those macros should help you to avoid unexpected compilation errors that are described in the 2nd item of the Know Issues list: https://github.com/plokhotnyuk/jsoniter-scala#known-issues

[plokhotnyuk]

@krux02 Please pick the v2.23.0 release and use JsoniterCodecMaker.makeCirceLike or JsoniterCodecMaker.make(CodecMakerConfig.withCirceLikeObjectEncoding(true).withDiscriminatorFieldName(None)).

To reuse the same configuration for different make calls you can use techniques described here.

[krux02]

Thanks a lot, this really helps.