Move Test.Hspec.Wai.JSON into a separate package

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Move Test.Hspec.Wai.JSON into a separate package

agrafix opened this issue 10 years ago · comments

Alexander Thiemann commented 10 years ago

Would it be possible to move Test.Hspec.Wai.JSON to a separate package? I think that testing for a specific JSON is useful in some cases, but there are still a lot of WAI Apps that don't need that. And for those installing the dependency aeson-qq (which installs haskell-src-meta; haskell-src-exts) takes very long and is useless...

Greg Weber · Answer 1 · Tue Sep 23 2014 21:12:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

That is why we created the shakespeare package which aesonqq could use instead

Alexander Thiemann · Answer 2 · Wed Sep 24 2014 00:11:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yeah, but if I don't have any json to check it would be could to live completely without it :-)

Simon Hengel · Answer 3 · Wed Sep 24 2014 11:37:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@agrafix I know that the current situation with haskell-src-exts is a pain. As we have the same issue with interpolate, I would eventually want to have a more lightweight parser for Haskell expressions.

Originally I intended to have Test.Hspec.Wai and Test.Hspec.Wai.JSON in separate packages but as we assumed that the most common case is to test JSON APIs, we ended up putting them into one package. I'm happy to split them up.

@gregwebs do you support arbitrary Haskell expressions for interpolation in shakespeare? If yes, how do you do it?