argonaut

Pre-defined pretty printers

Once you have using the Json data type in scala, you are going to need to safely convert that back to a json string.

You may want to print that in a compact format for a wire transport, or a format better suited for visual inspection. To assist we expose a number of predefined printers on the Json data type.

For example:

Produces:

/** compact **/
{"blue":false,"red":true}
/** formatted with 2 spaces **/
{
  "red" : true,
  "blue" : false
}
/** formatted with 4 spaces **/
{
    "red" : true,
    "blue" : false
}

Custom pretty printers

As with the entire argonaut library, pretty printing aims to make things as easy as possible - but not at the cost of flexibility or power. We expose the general pretty method that takes a PrettyParams configuration to customise all aspects of Json string generation.

For example, if we wanted to use two spaces, but not prefix the colon with a space, then we could tweak the default 2 space format:

Produces

{
  "red": true,
  "blue": false
}