From 66b0fd2ee69d84d3107f109679b6fd1866f8f3fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jsimomaa <jani.simomaa@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:24:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Add lookupJsonField to Data/Json SCL module

gitlab #256

Change-Id: If3be1a2f355f4542ffb60e0984ceec2b8771ed0f
---
 .../org.simantics.scl.data/scl/Data/Json.scl  | 26 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bundles/org.simantics.scl.data/scl/Data/Json.scl b/bundles/org.simantics.scl.data/scl/Data/Json.scl
index 659329df7..2190287fc 100644
--- a/bundles/org.simantics.scl.data/scl/Data/Json.scl
+++ b/bundles/org.simantics.scl.data/scl/Data/Json.scl
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+/*
+
+An example how to implement 
+
+data GeographicalLocation = GeographicalLocation {
+    latitude :: Double,
+    longitude :: Double
+}
+
+instance Json GeographicalLocation where
+    toJson GeographicalLocation { latitude, longitude } = JsonObject [
+        JsonField "latitude" (toJson latitude),
+        JsonField "longitude" (toJson longitude)
+    ]
+    fromJson object = GeographicalLocation {
+        latitude = fromJson $ fromJust $ lookupJsonField "latitude" object,
+        longitude = fromJson $ fromJust $ lookupJsonField "longitude" object
+    }
+*/
+
 import "StandardLibrary"
 import "Data/Writer"
 import "JavaBuiltin" as Java
@@ -298,6 +318,12 @@ data Json =
   | JsonObject [JsonField]
 data JsonField = JsonField String Json
   
+lookupJsonField :: String -> Json -> Maybe Json  
+lookupJsonField fieldName (JsonObject fields) = mapFirst selector fields
+  where
+    selector (JsonField name value) | name == fieldName = Just value
+    selector _ = Nothing 
+  
 deriving instance Show Json
 deriving instance Show JsonField
 
-- 
2.43.2