aeson: Fast JSON parsing and encoding
A JSON parsing and encoding library optimized for ease of use and high performance.
To get started, see the documentation for the Data.Aeson module
below.
(A note on naming: in Greek mythology, Aeson was the father of Jason.)
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| Name | Description | Default |
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| ordered-keymap | Use ordered | Enabled |
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.1.0.0, 0.2.0.0, 0.3.0.0, 0.3.1.0, 0.3.1.1, 0.3.2.0, 0.3.2.1, 0.3.2.2, 0.3.2.3, 0.3.2.4, 0.3.2.5, 0.3.2.6, 0.3.2.7, 0.3.2.8, 0.3.2.9, 0.3.2.10, 0.3.2.11, 0.3.2.12, 0.3.2.13, 0.3.2.14, 0.4.0.0, 0.4.0.1, 0.5.0.0, 0.6.0.0, 0.6.0.1, 0.6.0.2, 0.6.1.0, 0.6.2.0, 0.6.2.1, 0.7.0.0, 0.7.0.1, 0.7.0.2, 0.7.0.3, 0.7.0.4, 0.7.0.5, 0.7.0.6, 0.8.0.0, 0.8.0.1, 0.8.0.2, 0.8.1.0, 0.8.1.1, 0.9.0.0, 0.9.0.1, 0.10.0.0, 0.11.0.0, 0.11.1.0, 0.11.1.1, 0.11.1.2, 0.11.1.3, 0.11.1.4, 0.11.2.0, 0.11.2.1, 0.11.3.0, 1.0.0.0, 1.0.1.0, 1.0.2.0, 1.0.2.1, 1.1.0.0, 1.1.1.0, 1.1.2.0, 1.2.0.0, 1.2.1.0, 1.2.2.0, 1.2.3.0, 1.2.4.0, 1.3.0.0, 1.3.1.0, 1.3.1.1, 1.4.0.0, 1.4.1.0, 1.4.2.0, 1.4.3.0, 1.4.4.0, 1.4.5.0, 1.4.6.0, 1.4.7.0, 1.4.7.1, 1.5.0.0, 1.5.1.0, 1.5.2.0, 1.5.3.0, 1.5.4.0, 1.5.4.1, 1.5.5.0, 1.5.5.1, 1.5.6.0, 2.0.0.0, 2.0.1.0, 2.0.2.0, 2.0.3.0, 2.1.0.0, 2.1.1.0, 2.1.2.0, 2.1.2.1, 2.2.0.0, 2.2.1.0, 2.2.2.0, 2.2.3.0, 2.2.4.0 (info) |
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| Change log | changelog.md |
| Dependencies | base (>=4.12.0.0 && <5), bytestring (>=0.10.8.2 && <0.13), character-ps (>=0.1 && <0.2), containers (>=0.6.0.1 && <0.8), data-fix (>=0.3.2 && <0.4), deepseq (>=1.4.4.0 && <1.6), dlist (>=1.0 && <1.1), exceptions (>=0.10.4 && <0.11), generically (>=0.1 && <0.2), ghc-prim (>=0.5.0.0 && <0.14), hashable (>=1.4.6.0 && <1.5 || >=1.5.0.0 && <1.6), indexed-traversable (>=0.1.2 && <0.2), integer-conversion (>=0.1 && <0.2), integer-gmp, integer-logarithms (>=1.0.3.1 && <1.1), network-uri (>=2.6.4.1 && <2.7), OneTuple (>=0.4.1.1 && <0.5), primitive (>=0.8.0.0 && <0.9 || >=0.9.0.0 && <0.10), QuickCheck (>=2.14.3 && <2.16 || >=2.16.0.0 && <2.17 || >=2.17.1.0 && <2.18 || >=2.18.0.0 && <2.19), scientific (>=0.3.7.0 && <0.4), semialign (>=1.3 && <1.4), strict (>=0.5 && <0.6), tagged (>=0.8.7 && <0.9), template-haskell (>=2.14.0.0 && <2.24), text (>=1.2.3.0 && <1.3 || >=2.0 && <2.2), text-iso8601 (>=0.1.1 && <0.2), text-short (>=0.1.5 && <0.2), th-abstraction (>=0.5.0.0 && <0.6 || >=0.6.0.0 && <0.7 || >=0.7.0.0 && <0.8), these (>=1.2 && <1.3), time (>=1.8.0.2 && <1.15), time-compat (>=1.9.6 && <1.10), unordered-containers (>=0.2.10.0 && <0.3), uuid-types (>=1.0.5 && <1.1), vector (>=0.13.0.0 && <0.14), witherable (>=0.4.2 && <0.6) [details] |
| Tested with | ghc ==8.6.5 || ==8.8.4 || ==8.10.7 || ==9.0.2 || ==9.2.8 || ==9.4.8 || ==9.6.6 || ==9.8.4 || ==9.10.1 || ==9.12.1 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | (c) 2011-2016 Bryan O'Sullivan (c) 2011 MailRank, Inc. |
| Author | Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> |
| Maintainer | Adam Bergmark <adam@bergmark.nl> |
| Uploaded | by phadej at 2026-04-15T20:41:57Z |
| Category | Text, Web, JSON |
| Home page | https://github.com/haskell/aeson |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/haskell/aeson/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/haskell/aeson.git |
| Reverse Dependencies | 2799 direct, 5882 indirect [details] |
| Downloads | 602821 total (250 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 3.0 (votes: 44) [estimated by Bayesian average] |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2026-04-15 [all 1 reports] |
Readme for aeson-2.2.4.0
[back to package description]Welcome to aeson
aeson is a fast Haskell library for working with JSON data.
Join in!
We are happy to receive bug reports, fixes, documentation enhancements, and other improvements.
Please report bugs via the github issue tracker.
Master git repository:
git clone https://github.com/haskell/aeson.git
See what's changed in recent (and upcoming) releases:
(You can create and contribute changes using either git or Mercurial.)
Authors
This library was originally written by Bryan O'Sullivan.