RJson update

I've been meaning to write a little more about RJson for a while. The library has come quite a long way since the post describing the original version. One feature suggested to me by Jeremy Shaw, which should go in the next release, is automatic boxing and unboxing of types with single unary constructors. For example, suppose we have the following type:

data Counter = Counter Int deriving Show

We derive instances of ‘ToJson’ and ‘FromJson’ for this type using the following template Haskell code:

$(derive[''Counter])

Now, if we don't define custom ‘ToJson’ or ‘FromJson’ instances, the default behavior is this:

toJsonString (Counter 7)
--> "7"

fromJsonString (undefined :: Counter) "7"
--> Counter 7

This is a big improvement over the default behavior in older versions, which would have converted (Counter 7) to a single-element JSON array.