Play Framework: How to serialize/deserialize an enumeration to/from JSON

Question

Given the following enumeration...

object MyEnum extends Enumeration {

  type MyEnum = Value

  val Val1 = Value(\"val1\")
  val Val2 = Value(\"val2\")
  va         


        

Answer 1

Try changing it to

def reads(json: JsValue) = JsSuccess(MyEnum.withName(json.as[String].value))