@hackage generic-data0.2.0.0

Utilities for GHC.Generics

Generic data types in Haskell Hackage Build Status

Utilities for GHC.Generics.

Generic deriving for standard classes

Supported classes that GHC currently can't derive: Semigroup, Monoid, Applicative, Alternative, Eq1, Ord1, Show1.

Other classes from base are also supported, even though GHC can already derive them:

  • Eq, Ord, Enum, Bounded, Show (standard);
  • Functor, Foldable, Traversable (via extensions, DeriveFunctor, etc.).

(Read is currently not implemented.)

To derive type classes defined elsewhere, it might be worth taking a look at one-liner.

Type metadata

Extract type names, constructor names, number and arities of constructors, etc..


generic-data aims to subsume generic deriving features of the following packages:

  • semigroups: generic Semigroup, Monoid, but with a heavy dependency footprint.
  • transformers-compat: generic Eq1, Ord1, Show1.
  • generic-deriving: doesn't derive the classes in base (defines clones of these classes as a toy example); has Template Haskell code to derive Generic.

Here are other relevant links.


All contributions are welcome. Open an issue or a pull request on Github!