By providing the predefined implicits directly from the companion object of JsonFormat no extra imports are needed for simple usages. That's standard for any type-class based library but we missed it back then.
The difficulty is to keep everything compatible but it seems I found a way that it is simple and compatible.
Let's keep an open tab of implicits that have been converted in that style:
jrudolph
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4 years ago
By providing the predefined implicits directly from the companion object of JsonFormat no extra imports are needed for simple usages. That's standard for any type-class based library but we missed it back then.
The difficulty is to keep everything compatible but it seems I found a way that it is simple and compatible.
Let's keep an open tab of implicits that have been converted in that style:
All of those are included in #309.