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4430 :: Auto-dereferencing doesn't seem to work?

• mp035 (orginal) [2018-12-03T22:19:56+01:00] view original

  Hi All, I'm writing a small app, and using the JSON module I have a section of code like this:

  var json_response = parseJson(response.body)
  echo $json_response["settings"]{"pollingRate"}[].kind
  Run

  Which works. But, this doesn't:

  var json_response = parseJson(response.body)
  echo $json_response["settings"]{"pollingRate"}.kind
  Run

  main.nim(37, 32) Hint: simpleGetOrDefault(json_response["settings"], "pollingRate") --> 'getOrDefault(json_response["settings"], "pollingRate")' [Pattern]

  main.nim(37, 32) Error: type mismatch: got (JsonNode) but expected 'JsonNodeObj = object'

  When I read the manual, I see:

  # no need to write n[].data; in fact n[].data is highly discouraged!

  Is this a bug?

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• mashingan (orginal) [2018-12-04T09:04:39+01:00] view original

  this works

  import json
  
  let jsonraw = """{
   "settings": {
       "pollingRate": 5
   }
  }"""
  let jobj = parseJson jsonraw
  echo jobj["settings"]["pollingRate"].kind
  echo jobj["settings"]{"pollingRate"}
  Run

  Maybe the problem is in {} proc, using usual [] it works fine

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