type mismatch error when creating Reads for Play 2.1

Question

I have been playing with this for hours. I have been trying different methods of creating a read and I am just completely stumped.

I am on Play 2.1.0 and

Answer 1

This should work:

implicit val regReads: Reads[Registration] = (__ \ "user").read(
    (__ \ "id").read[String] and
      (__ \ "username").read[String] and
      (__ \ "first_name").read[String] and
      (__ \ "last_name").read[String] and
      (__ \ "email_address").read[String] and
      (__ \ "user_avatar").read[String]
      tupled
  ) map Registration.apply _

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