stuartc
Generating JSON responses as a stream
I’m trying to generate a stream of JSON from an Ecto stream to be sent out via send_chunked/2 and chunk/2.
It appears that all the JSON libraries I can find are only for parsing.
With the exception of GitHub - TreyE/json_stream_encoder: Streaming encoder for JSON in elixir.
I got stuck trying to use this library since it’s built around IO.binwrite which needs an IO device; I’m more comfortable with streams at the moment.
The gist of what I need is IO’ish device or a Stream of strings, but gives me the opportunity to format things as I go.
Individual items in the response aren’t big on their own, but there could be thousands of them.
Is there any library or approach anyone can share?
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LostKobrakai
Ecto streams are not arbitrary, but essentially chunks. You always get a fixed(max) number of full rows, never partial rows. So your stream could essentially be:
rows = Stream.map(ecto_stream, &Jason.encode!/1)
Stream.concat([["["], Stream.intersperse(rows, ","), ["]"]])
Or switch to ndjson and just join the rows with newlines.
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krasenyp
They might even query records as JSON, if the database supports it, and skip encoding in the application altogether.
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