melange-community / melange-community/jsonkit
Suggestion: additional expressive attributes
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- Dominant language
- OCaml
- Stars
- 24
- Forks
- 7
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Description
Melange JSON could provide 2 features that I haven’t seen in other OCaml serialization libraries:
[@skip_serialize_if Option.is_none]{ … extra: (string * Json.t) list }(type TBD) that contains a grab bag of the remaining fields we didn’t parse
These are present in Rust’s serde and allow a lot more use cases to be expressed.
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Research direction
The issue names Melange JSON's PPX and serialization behavior but no files or tests. Start by locating the existing PPX and encoder/decoder entry points, then compare their current attribute and field-handling APIs with the two requested features. Done means both behaviors have an agreed type and semantics and are supported consistently.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- ocaml
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100