playframework/Play20 — comment on commit 93c1741112564fb5d97b756a5cac120ff0c55fbe
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By julienrf:

> Even if the deleted method gave you the impression that it'd work, that wasn't true. And all the Reads instance do simple type correspondance and no string parsing.

Indeed, you’re right.

So the real question is “do we want `Reads` instance to interprete JSON content or just to convert it into equivalent JVM objects?”