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JSON Trouble

JSON Trouble

Learn how to implement the routes and find a workaround for the http4s error.

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Broken JSON

Now that we have a proper streaming solution, we can try it out.

What do we get when we expect a list of products?

The http command is from the tool httpie19 for querying our service.

Scala
% http :53248/products
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
{
  "id":"8773899b-fcfa-401f-af3e-b188ebb0c00c",
  "names":[
    {"lang":"de","name":"Erdbeere"}, 
    {"lang":"en","name":"Strawberry"}
  ]
}
{
  "id":"983aaf86-abe4-44af-9896-d8f2d2c5f82c",
  "names":[
    {"lang":"de","name":"Gurke"},
    {"lang":"en","name":"Cucumber"}
  ]
}

Well, whatever this is, it is not JSON! It might look like it, but it isn’t. However, quite often such things ...