The Path to Generic Endpoints using Shapeless
summary
Goal is a single generic update endpoint for Guardian content atoms so field-level edits avoid overwrite conflicts; building hundreds of endpoints is untenable and new atoms cost ~2 months each. Experiment uses Shapeless to convert nested case classes to HLists and then to nested maps via a toMapRec type class and a reverse fromMap conversion, producing a working PR that lacks type safety, then gets replaced by an implementation in Circe for the Atom Workshop and completes in about an hour.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:08Content Atoms
- 2:14Atom Workshop
- 4:56Shapeless
- 6:17First approach
- 8:12Second approach
- 9:27Type Classes
- 11:11Class to map
- 13:24Map to class
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