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I have a huge set of nested case classes for which I have added implicit formatters. Initially, I was hitting some ordering problems when I declared those formatters, but as soon as I was able to sort all the ordering out of the way, I get some other errors like:

Error:(57, 56) forward reference extends over definition of value zombType
    implicit val varFmt: OFormat[Variant] = Json.format[Variant]

Here is my set of case classes which are defined in numerous different files:

In a package called commontypes, I have the following set of case classes:

sealed trait BuiltInType { def id: Int }
  case class ZombieType          (a: String,        id: Int = 0) extends BuiltInType
  case class BooleanType         (a: Boolean,       id: Int = 1) extends BuiltInType
  case class ByteType            (a: Byte,          id: Int = 2) extends BuiltInType
  case class UByteType           (a: Byte,          id: Int = 3) extends BuiltInType
  case class Int16Type           (a: Int,           id: Int = 4) extends BuiltInType
  case class UInt16Type          (a: Int,           id: Int = 5) extends BuiltInType
  case class Int32Type           (a: Int,           id: Int = 6) extends BuiltInType
  case class UInt32Type          (a: Int,           id: Int = 7) extends BuiltInType
  case class Int64Type           (a: Long,          id: Int = 8) extends BuiltInType
  case class UInt64Type          (a: Long,          id: Int = 9) extends BuiltInType
  case class FloatType           (a: Float,         id: Int = 10) extends BuiltInType
  case class DoubleType          (a: Double,        id: Int = 11) extends BuiltInType
  case class StringType          (a: String,        id: Int = 12) extends BuiltInType
  case class DateTimeType        (a: Long,          id: Int = 13) extends BuiltInType // FIXME: Wrong type used, fix it later
  case class GuidType            (a: UUID,          id: Int = 14) extends BuiltInType
  case class ByteStringType      (a: Vector[Byte],  id: Int = 15) extends BuiltInType
  case class XmlElementType      (a: String,        id: Int = 16) extends BuiltInType
  case class NodeIdType          (a: NodeId,        id: Int = 17) extends BuiltInType
  case class ExpandedNodeIdType  (a: NodeId,        id: Int = 18) extends BuiltInType 
  case class StatusCodeType      (a: StatusCode,    id: Int = 19) extends BuiltInType
  case class QualifiedNameType   (a: QualifiedName, id: Int = 20) extends BuiltInType
  case class LocalizedTextType   (a: LocalizedText, id: Int = 21) extends BuiltInType
  case class ExtensionObjectType (a: ExtensionObject, id: Int = 22) extends BuiltInType 
  case class DataValueType       (a: DataValue,       id: Int = 23) extends BuiltInType 
  case class VariantType         (a: Variant,       id: Int = 24) extends BuiltInType
  case class DiagnosticInfoType  (a: String,        id: Int = 25) extends BuiltInType

In another package called headertypes, I have the following set of case classes defined:

sealed trait ExtensionObjectEncoding
      case class ByteStringEncoding(bytes: Vector[Byte]) extends ExtensionObjectEncoding
      case class XmlElementEncoding(xmlElement: String) extends ExtensionObjectEncoding
  case class ExtensionObject(
    encodingTypeId: NodeId,
    encodedBody: ExtensionObjectEncoding
  )

  case class DataValue(
    value: Variant,
    status: StatusCode,
    sourceTime: Long, // TODO: Need to be a Datetime type
    sourcePicoseconds: Int,
    serverTime: Long, // TODO: Need to be a Datetime type
    serverPicoseconds: Int
  )

  case class KeyValueProperty(
    qName: QualifiedName,
    value: Variant
  )

sealed trait VariantData
  case class SimpleOrder(rows: Vector[BuiltInType]) extends VariantData
  case class HigherOrder(matrices: Vector[VariantData]) extends VariantData

Here is the GitHub project and I have declared all the implicit formats in a file called DataSetMetaDataParserSpec which is a test that I'm writing!

Any idea how I can resolve this error?

joesan
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  • The question doesn't indicate the actual code, including how/where is declared `varFmt` – cchantep Aug 28 '19 at 07:10
  • Original question was here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57680019/play-framework-json-fails-with-ordering – Dmytro Mitin Aug 28 '19 at 08:51
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    Same as with my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57680559/2750966 – pme Aug 28 '19 at 09:21
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    Possible duplicate of [Play Framework JSON Fails With Ordering](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57680019/play-framework-json-fails-with-ordering) – cchantep Aug 29 '19 at 11:01
  • It is not a duplicate! This post talks about forward reference error while the other one which is also from me talks about ordering error! – joesan Aug 29 '19 at 18:33

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