If you try to parse a JSON in elm you may run into a strange type issue, the function Json.Decode.objectN will return Result.Result String Type and not the type you thought you probably were going to get. What is going on here is that decoding a JSON is an action that can fail, so having decode just return your type is wrong, because it may return an error.

There are a number of ways to deal with this in the Result module but using Result.withDefault is an easy one

See this code snipit:

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