JSON decoding - error message not enough information?

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Hello everyone!

I’m writing a JSON decoder for a service I own. It’s currently failing, and I think this is a problem with the JSON returned from the server (not the decoder), but there is not enough details about where it fails:

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I remember the error messages having a lot more details. Am I missing a configuration or flag?

Thanks for the help!

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Are your trying to find your bug or are trying to improve your error message?

In both cases it will be helpful if you post your json and your decoder.

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The 9th object from the JSON response doesn’t have the expected field “name”.

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Looks like a good candidate for https://github.com/elm/error-message-catalog in case you used the json decoding from the standard library.

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Thanks everyone for the answers.

It was indeed something wrong with the JSON returned from the server. The decoder is a Decode.list decodeItem at the top-level, and the list returned was large, so I was having trouble finding where the name attribute was missing (the 9th element).

Yes, I’m using only functions from Json.Decode.

Thanks for the help!

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