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Could you replace/change your implementation bugs into types bugs?

• josteink 8y ago
  If you are parsing known JSON schemas, defining them as types instead of generic dictionary lookups makes this a type-error, not a implementation error. I can’t see why anyone would want not to do this.
  • jacobush 8y ago
    Genuine question - how would I do this in VB.net? Is is as painful as I imagine, with a lot of classes?
    • josteink 8y ago
      I don’t think that’s painful at all. Yes you define it as a root class, with dependent classes as needed. This is the contract. It needs to be defined somehow, and IMO this is as good a way as any. From there on you just use JSON.NET to convert your JSON-string to an instance of the root type, literally one line of code. And after that you get code-completion and type-inference and compile-time checking for all data-object access. It’s an absolute no-brainer.
      • jacobush 8y ago
        Thanks! I need to look into that.