Haskell scotty and persistence rest API - haskell

Question

I'm new in Haskell. I woudl like to create simple crud rest api with scotty and persistence. I'm using sqlite with one table todo (title text, description text), I have some records in table. My point is to show all records on enpoint /todos in json format. When I print it I gets an error
• Couldn't match expected type ‘Data.Text.Internal.Lazy.Text’
with actual type ‘[Entity ToDo]’
• In the first argument of ‘text’, namely ‘(_ToDo)’
In a stmt of a 'do' block: text (_ToDo)
In the second argument of ‘($)’, namely
‘do _ToDo <- liftIO readToDo
text (_ToDo)’
|
69 | text(_ToDo)
| ^^^^^
My code:
{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}
{-# LANGUAGE EmptyDataDecls #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
{-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-}
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
{-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeSynonymInstances #-}
{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-orphans #-}
{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-}
module Main where
import Data.Monoid ((<>))
import Web.Scotty
import qualified Web.Scotty as S
import Database.Persist
import Database.Persist.Sqlite
import Database.Persist.TH
import Data.Text (Text)
import Data.Time (UTCTime, getCurrentTime)
import qualified Data.Text as T
import Control.Monad.IO.Class (liftIO)
import Control.Monad.Trans.Resource (runResourceT, ResourceT)
import Database.Persist.Sql
import Control.Monad (forM_)
import Control.Applicative
import Control.Monad.Logger
import Data.Aeson
import Data.Default.Class
import GHC.Generics
import Control.Monad.IO.Class (liftIO)
share [mkPersist sqlSettings, mkMigrate "migrateAll"] [persistLowerCase|
ToDo
title String
description String
deriving Show
|]
runDb :: SqlPersist (ResourceT (NoLoggingT IO)) a -> IO a
runDb = runNoLoggingT
. runResourceT
. withSqliteConn "todo.db"
. runSqlConn
instance ToJSON ToDo where
toJSON(ToDo title description) = object ["title" .= title, "description" .= description]
readToDo :: IO [Entity ToDo]
readToDo = (runDb $ selectList [] [LimitTo 10] )
routes :: ScottyM()
routes = do
S.get "/hello" $ do
text "hello world!"
S.get "/hello/:name" $ do
name <- param "name"
text ("hello" <> name <> "!")
S.get "/todos" $ do
_ToDo <- liftIO readToDo
text(_ToDo)
main = do
putStrLn "Starting server...."
scotty 7777 routes
How to correct this?

Answer 1

It looks like compiler accused you of having a bad conversion between the list of Entity ToDo-s and Data.Text.Lazy.
Please try to convert it by hand using pack function:
import Data.Text.Lazy (pack)
...
routes = do
S.get "/hello" $ do
text "hello world!"
S.get "/hello/:name" $ do
name <- param "name"
text ("hello" <> name <> "!")
S.get "/todos" $ do
_ToDo <- liftIO readToDo
text(pack . show $ _ToDo) -- explicit conversion
...