iron9light · July 19, 2012 05:51 · Jul 19, 2012
diff --git a/MixedTypeArrayJsonSuite.scala b/MixedTypeArrayJsonSuite.scala
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+package net.liftweb.sandbox
+
+import org.scalatest.FunSuite
+import net.liftweb.json._
+import org.scalatest.matchers.ShouldMatchers
+
+/**
+ * @author IL
+ * @see <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/liftweb/GK5DbzCtWdA">forum</a>
+ */
+class MixedTypeArrayJsonSuite extends FunSuite with ShouldMatchers {
+  implicit val formats = DefaultFormats + new CustomSerializer[Either[String, Entry]](
+    format => ( {
+      case JString(s) => Left(s)
+      case j => Right(j.extract[Entry](DefaultFormats, manifest[Entry]))
+    }, {
+      case Left(s: String) => JString(s)
+      case Right(e: Entry) => Extraction.decompose(e)(DefaultFormats)
+    }
+      )
+  )
+
+  test("extract mixed type list") {
+    val a = parse( """{
+    "field1": true,
+    "field2": "hi",
+    "entries": [
+        [
+            "blah",
+            {
+                "fielda": 70615911,
+                "fieldb": "4358367001dfbd6",
+            }
+        ],
+        [
+            "hello.txt",
+            {
+                "fielda": 363696459,
+                "fieldb": "15ad914b001dfbd6",
+            }
+        ]
+   ]
+}""")
+
+    val obj = a.extract[Root]
+
+    obj should be === Root(true, "hi",
+      (Left("blah") :: Right(Entry(70615911, "4358367001dfbd6")) :: Nil) ::
+        (Left("hello.txt") :: Right(Entry(363696459, "15ad914b001dfbd6")) :: Nil) :: Nil)
+  }
+}
+
+case class Root(field1: Boolean, field2: String, entries: List[List[Either[String, Entry]]])
+
+case class Entry(fielda: Int, fieldb: String)