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+# Revision history for taskwarrior
+
+## 0.1.0.0 -- YYYY-mm-dd
+
+* First version. Released on an unsuspecting world.
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# taskwarrior
+
+[![Hackage](https://img.shields.io/hackage/v/taskwarrior.svg)](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/taskwarrior)
+[![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/endpoint.svg?url=https%3A%2F%2Factions-badge.atrox.dev%2Fmaralorn%2Fhaskell-taskwarrior%2Fbadge%3Fref%3Dmaster)](https://actions-badge.atrox.dev/maralorn/haskell-taskwarrior/goto?ref=master)
+[![Hackage Deps](https://img.shields.io/hackage-deps/v/taskwarrior.svg)](http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse/taskwarrior)
+
+## About
+
+[Taskwarrior](https://taskwarrior.org) is a feature rich command-line task management tool.
+
+This Haskell library contains
+
+* a data type to represent a taskwarrior task
+* Aeson instances to deserialize and serialize a task according to the taskwarrior import/export specifications
+* IO actions to load and manipulate tasks by calling the `task` command. (Since this is the encouraged way to library design by the taskwarrior developers.)
+
+## Usage
+
+Install `taskwarrior` from hackage. Have a look at `Taskwarrior.IO.getTasks` to get started.
+
+This example prints the description of (at the most) 5 pending tasks.
+```haskell
+import Taskwarrior.IO (getTasks)
+import Taskwarrior.Task as Task
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = do
+  tasks <- getTasks ["+PENDING", "limit:5"]
+  print $ Task.description <$> tasks
+```
+
+## Contributions
+
+Any form of issue reports, general feedback or suggestions and of course code contributions are highly welcome.
diff --git a/src/Taskwarrior/Annotation.hs b/src/Taskwarrior/Annotation.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards, ScopedTypeVariables #-}
+-- |
+module Taskwarrior.Annotation
+  ( Annotation(..)
+  )
+where
+
+import qualified Taskwarrior.Time              as Time
+import           Data.Time                      ( UTCTime )
+import           Data.Text                      ( Text )
+import           Data.Aeson                     ( (.:)
+                                                , (.=)
+                                                )
+import qualified Data.Aeson                    as Aeson
+
+-- |
+data Annotation = Annotation { entry :: UTCTime, description :: Text } deriving (Eq, Show, Read, Ord)
+
+instance Aeson.FromJSON Annotation where
+  parseJSON = Aeson.withObject "Annotation" $ \o -> do
+    description <- o .: "description"
+    entry       <- o .: "entry" >>= Time.parse
+    pure Annotation { .. }
+
+instance Aeson.ToJSON Annotation where
+  toJSON Annotation {..} =
+    Aeson.object ["description" .= description, "entry" .= Time.toValue entry]
diff --git a/src/Taskwarrior/IO.hs b/src/Taskwarrior/IO.hs
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+-- | This modules contains IO actions to interact with the taskwarrior application.
+-- The taskwarrior documentation very explicitly disallows accessing the files by itself.
+-- So all functions here work via calling the `task` binary which needs to be in the PATH.
+module Taskwarrior.IO
+  ( getTasks
+  , saveTasks
+  )
+where
+
+import           Taskwarrior.Task               ( Task )
+import           Data.Text                      ( Text )
+import qualified Data.Text                     as Text
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy          as LBS
+import qualified Data.Aeson                    as Aeson
+import           System.Process                 ( withCreateProcess
+                                                , CreateProcess(..)
+                                                , proc
+                                                , StdStream(..)
+                                                , waitForProcess
+                                                )
+import           System.IO                      ( hClose )
+import           System.Exit                    ( ExitCode(..) )
+import           Control.Monad                  ( when )
+
+-- | Uses task export with a given filter like ["description:Milk", "+PENDING"].
+getTasks :: [Text] -> IO [Task]
+getTasks args =
+  withCreateProcess
+      ((proc "task" (fmap Text.unpack . (++ ["export"]) $ args))
+        { std_out = CreatePipe
+        }
+      )
+    $ \_ stdoutMay _ _ -> do
+        stdout <- maybe
+          (fail "Couldn‘t create stdout handle for `task export`")
+          pure
+          stdoutMay
+        input <- LBS.hGetContents stdout
+        either fail return . Aeson.eitherDecode $ input
+
+-- | Uses task import to save the given tasks.
+saveTasks :: [Task] -> IO ()
+saveTasks tasks =
+  withCreateProcess ((proc "task" ["import"]) { std_in = CreatePipe })
+    $ \stdinMay _ _ process -> do
+        stdin <- maybe (fail "Couldn‘t create stdin handle for `task import`")
+                       pure
+                       stdinMay
+        LBS.hPut stdin . Aeson.encode $ tasks
+        hClose stdin
+        exitCode <- waitForProcess process
+        when (exitCode /= ExitSuccess) $ fail . show $ exitCode
diff --git a/src/Taskwarrior/Mask.hs b/src/Taskwarrior/Mask.hs
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+++ b/src/Taskwarrior/Mask.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE LambdaCase, QuasiQuotes #-}
+-- | The Mask module models the state a recurring parent saves about it‘s child tasks.
+module Taskwarrior.Mask
+  ( Mask(..)
+  , MaskState
+  )
+where
+
+import qualified Data.Text                     as Text
+import           Data.String.Interpolate        ( i )
+import qualified Data.Aeson                    as Aeson
+import qualified Data.Aeson.Types              as Aeson.Types
+
+-- | Represents the state of a child in a recurring task.
+data MaskState = Pending | Completed | Deleted | Waiting deriving (Eq, Show, Enum, Read, Ord, Bounded)
+
+-- | The mask is a newtype to provide Aeson instances from and to a JSON string.
+newtype Mask = Mask {mask :: [MaskState]} deriving (Eq, Read, Ord, Show)
+
+toChar :: MaskState -> Char
+toChar = \case
+  Pending   -> '.'
+  Completed -> '+'
+  Deleted   -> 'X'
+  Waiting   -> 'W'
+
+instance Aeson.FromJSON Mask where
+  parseJSON =
+    Aeson.withText "Mask" $ fmap Mask . traverse parseChar . Text.unpack
+
+parseChar :: Char -> Aeson.Types.Parser MaskState
+parseChar = \case
+  '.'  -> pure Pending
+  '+'  -> pure Completed
+  'X'  -> pure Deleted
+  'W'  -> pure Waiting
+  char -> fail [i|Not a Mask Char: '#{char}'|]
+
+instance Aeson.ToJSON Mask where
+  toJSON = Aeson.String . Text.pack . fmap toChar . mask
diff --git a/src/Taskwarrior/Priority.hs b/src/Taskwarrior/Priority.hs
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+++ b/src/Taskwarrior/Priority.hs
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+-- | This module provides the type for the priority of a task.
+module Taskwarrior.Priority (parseMay, Priority) where
+
+import qualified Data.Aeson                    as Aeson
+import           Data.Aeson.Types               ( Parser, typeMismatch )
+
+
+-- | A task can have the priorities high, medium, low or none, which is modeled via a Maybe Priority.
+data Priority = High | Medium | Low
+        deriving (Eq, Show, Read, Enum, Ord, Bounded)
+
+instance Aeson.ToJSON Priority where
+   toJSON = \case
+      High -> "H"
+      Medium -> "M"
+      Low -> "L"
+
+-- | Parses a JSON string to a Maybe Priority, fails on anything else.
+parseMay :: Aeson.Value -> Parser (Maybe Priority)
+parseMay val = Aeson.withText "Priority" (\case
+  "H" -> pure $ Just High
+  "M" -> pure $ Just Medium
+  "L" -> pure $ Just Low
+  "" -> pure Nothing
+  _ -> typeMismatch "Priority" val) val
diff --git a/src/Taskwarrior/Status.hs b/src/Taskwarrior/Status.hs
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+++ b/src/Taskwarrior/Status.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE LambdaCase #-}
+-- | This module deals with information of a task which is dependent on the status.
+module Taskwarrior.Status
+  ( Status(..)
+  , parseFromObject
+  , toPairs
+  )
+where
+
+import           Taskwarrior.Mask               ( Mask )
+import qualified Taskwarrior.Time              as Time
+import           Data.Aeson                     ( Object
+                                                , (.:)
+                                                , (.=)
+                                                )
+import qualified Data.Aeson                    as Aeson
+import           Control.Applicative            ( (<|>) )
+import           Data.Text                      ( Text )
+import           Data.Time                      ( UTCTime )
+import           Data.UUID                      ( UUID )
+import           Data.Aeson.Types               ( Parser
+                                                , typeMismatch
+                                                , Pair
+                                                )
+-- | A task can be pending, deleted, completed, waiting or recurring.
+-- If I task is a recurring child or a recurring parent depends on the existence of the corresponding fields and can not be told from the status field alone.
+-- It is recommended to access the fields only by pattern matching since the getters are partial.
+data Status =
+  Pending |
+  Deleted {  end :: UTCTime } |
+  Completed {  end :: UTCTime } |
+  Waiting { wait :: UTCTime } |
+  RecurringParent {
+    recur :: Text,
+    mask :: Mask} |
+  RecurringChild {
+    recur :: Text,
+    imask :: Integer,
+    parent :: UUID }
+  deriving (Eq, Show, Read, Ord)
+
+parseFromObject, parseParentFromObject, parseChildFromObject
+  :: Object -> Parser Status
+-- | Takes all information that is dependent on the status from a JSON object.
+parseFromObject o = (o .: "status") >>= \case
+  "pending"   -> pure Pending
+  "deleted"   -> Deleted <$> (o .: "end" >>= Time.parse)
+  "completed" -> Completed <$> (o .: "end" >>= Time.parse)
+  "waiting"   -> Waiting <$> (o .: "wait" >>= Time.parse)
+  "recurring" -> parseParentFromObject o <|> parseChildFromObject o
+  str         -> typeMismatch "status" (Aeson.String str)
+
+-- | Gathers all fields for a RecurringChild status.
+parseChildFromObject o =
+  RecurringChild <$> o .: "recur" <*> o .: "imask" <*> o .: "parent"
+
+-- | Gathers all fields for a RecurringParent status.
+parseParentFromObject o = RecurringParent <$> o .: "recur" <*> o .: "mask"
+
+-- | A list of Pairs can be used to construct a JSON object later. The result of Status.toPairs is supposed to be combined with the rest of the fields of a task.
+toPairs :: Status -> [Pair]
+toPairs = \case
+  Pending        -> [statusLabel "pending"]
+  Deleted {..}   -> [statusLabel "deleted", "end" .= Time.toValue end]
+  Completed {..} -> [statusLabel "completed", "end" .= Time.toValue end]
+  Waiting {..}   -> [statusLabel "waiting", "wait" .= Time.toValue wait]
+  RecurringParent {..} ->
+    [statusLabel "recurring", "recur" .= recur, "mask" .= mask]
+  RecurringChild {..} ->
+    [ statusLabel "recurring"
+    , "recur" .= recur
+    , "imask" .= imask
+    , "parent" .= parent
+    ]
+ where
+  statusLabel :: Text -> Pair
+  statusLabel = ("status" .=)
diff --git a/src/Taskwarrior/Task.hs b/src/Taskwarrior/Task.hs
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Taskwarrior/Task.hs
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+-- | This Module exports the main datatype of this library: Task.
+-- It is provided with FromJSON and ToJSON instances.
+module Taskwarrior.Task
+  ( Task(..)
+  , Tag
+  )
+where
+
+import qualified Data.Text                     as Text
+import           Data.Text                      ( Text )
+import           Data.Time                      ( UTCTime )
+import qualified Data.UUID                     as UUID
+import           Data.UUID                      ( UUID )
+import qualified Data.Aeson                    as Aeson
+import qualified Data.Aeson.Types              as Aeson.Types
+import           Data.Aeson                     ( withObject
+                                                , withText
+                                                , FromJSON
+                                                , ToJSON
+                                                , parseJSON
+                                                , (.:)
+                                                , (.=)
+                                                , (.:?)
+                                                , Value
+                                                )
+import qualified Data.Semigroup                as Semigroup
+import qualified Data.Maybe                    as Maybe
+import           Control.Monad                  ( join )
+import qualified Data.Foldable                 as Foldable
+import           Taskwarrior.Status             ( Status )
+import qualified Taskwarrior.Status            as Status
+import           Taskwarrior.Priority           ( Priority )
+import qualified Taskwarrior.Priority          as Priority
+import           Taskwarrior.UDA                ( UDA )
+import           Taskwarrior.Annotation         ( Annotation )
+import qualified Taskwarrior.Time              as Time
+import qualified Data.HashMap.Strict           as HashMap
+import           Foreign.Marshal.Utils          ( fromBool )
+
+-- | A Task represents a task from taskwarrior. See <https://taskwarrior.org/docs/design/task.html> for the specification of the fields.
+-- The specification demands, that the existence of some fields is dependent on the status of the task.
+-- Those fields are therefore bundled in status as a sum-type.
+--
+-- All fields in an imported task which are not part of the specification will be put in the UDA (user defined attributes) HashMap.
+--
+-- Since the json can have multiple semantically equivalent representations of a task first serializing and then deserializing is not identity.
+-- But deserializing and then serializing should be. (Thus making serializing and deserializing idempotent.)
+data Task = Task {
+        status      :: Status,
+        uuid        :: UUID,
+        entry       :: UTCTime,
+        description :: Text,
+        start       :: Maybe UTCTime,
+        modified    :: Maybe UTCTime,
+        due         :: Maybe UTCTime,
+        until       :: Maybe UTCTime,
+        annotations :: [Annotation],
+        scheduled   :: Maybe UTCTime,
+        project     :: Maybe Text,
+        priority    :: Maybe Priority,
+        depends     :: [UUID],
+        tags        :: [Tag],
+        uda         :: UDA
+} deriving (Eq, Show, Read)
+
+-- | A Tag can be basically any string. But beware: Special symbols work but might clash with `task` cli syntax.
+type Tag = Text
+
+
+reservedKeys :: [Text]
+reservedKeys =
+  [ "status"
+  , "uuid"
+  , "description"
+  , "entry"
+  , "modified"
+  , "due"
+  , "until"
+  , "scheduled"
+  , "annotations"
+  , "start"
+  , "project"
+  , "priority"
+  , "depends"
+  , "tags"
+  , "wait"
+  , "end"
+  , "mask"
+  , "imask"
+  , "parent"
+  , "recur"
+  ]
+
+instance FromJSON Task where
+  parseJSON = withObject "Task" $ \object -> do
+    let parseTimeFromFieldMay = parseFromFieldWithMay Time.parse object
+        uda = HashMap.filterWithKey (\k _ -> k `notElem` reservedKeys) object
+    status      <- Status.parseFromObject object
+    uuid        <- object .: "uuid"
+    entry       <- object .: "entry" >>= Time.parse
+    description <- object .: "description"
+    start       <- parseTimeFromFieldMay "start"
+    modified    <- parseTimeFromFieldMay "modified"
+    due         <- parseTimeFromFieldMay "due"
+    until_      <- parseTimeFromFieldMay "until"
+    scheduled   <- parseTimeFromFieldMay "scheduled"
+    annotations <- Foldable.fold <$> object .:? "annotations"
+    project     <- object .:? "project"
+    priority    <- join
+      <$> parseFromFieldWithMay Priority.parseMay object "priority"
+    depends <- maybe (pure []) parseUuidList (HashMap.lookup "depends" object)
+    tags    <- Foldable.fold <$> object .:? "tags"
+    pure Task { until = until_, .. }
+
+parseFromFieldWithMay
+  :: (Value -> Aeson.Types.Parser a)
+  -> Aeson.Object
+  -> Text
+  -> Aeson.Types.Parser (Maybe a)
+parseFromFieldWithMay parser object name =
+  traverse parser (HashMap.lookup name object)
+
+parseUuidList :: Aeson.Value -> Aeson.Types.Parser [UUID]
+parseUuidList =
+  withText "Text" $ mapM (parseJSON . Aeson.String) . Text.splitOn ","
+
+instance ToJSON Task where
+  toJSON Task { until = until_, ..} =
+    Aeson.object
+      $  Status.toPairs status
+      <> [ "uuid" .= uuid
+         , "entry" .= Time.toValue entry
+         , "description" .= description
+         ]
+      <> ifNotNullList annotations ("annotations" .=)
+      <> Maybe.mapMaybe
+           (\(name, value) -> (name .=) . Time.toValue <$> value)
+           [ ("start"    , start)
+           , ("modified" , modified)
+           , ("due"      , due)
+           , ("scheduled", scheduled)
+           , ("until"    , until_)
+           ]
+      <> Maybe.catMaybes
+           [("project" .=) <$> project, ("priority" .=) <$> priority]
+      <> ifNotNullList
+           depends
+           (("depends" .=) . Text.intercalate "," . fmap UUID.toText)
+      <> ifNotNullList tags ("tags" .=)
+      <> HashMap.toList uda
+
+ifNotNullList :: [b] -> ([b] -> a) -> [a]
+ifNotNullList list f =
+  (Semigroup.stimesMonoid . (fromBool :: Bool -> Integer) . not . null $ list)
+    [f list]
diff --git a/src/Taskwarrior/Time.hs b/src/Taskwarrior/Time.hs
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Taskwarrior/Time.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+-- | This module provides no own time type for taskwarrior rather it only gives deserialisation and serialisation support.
+module Taskwarrior.Time
+  ( parse
+  , toValue
+  )
+where
+import           Data.Aeson                     ( withText )
+import qualified Data.Aeson                    as Aeson
+import           Data.Aeson.Types               ( Parser
+                                                , typeMismatch
+                                                )
+import           Data.Time                      ( UTCTime
+                                                , parseTimeM
+                                                , defaultTimeLocale
+                                                )
+import qualified Data.Time.Format              as Time.Format
+import qualified Data.Text                     as Text
+
+-- | Converts a time to the taskwarrior time format.
+toValue :: UTCTime -> Aeson.Value
+toValue time = Aeson.String . Text.pack $ Time.Format.formatTime
+  defaultTimeLocale
+  "%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ"
+  time
+
+-- | Parses a JSON string from the taskwarrior time format.
+parse :: Aeson.Value -> Parser UTCTime
+parse value = withText
+  "Date"
+  ( maybe (typeMismatch "Date" value) pure
+  . parseTimeM False defaultTimeLocale "%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ"
+  . Text.unpack
+  )
+  value
diff --git a/src/Taskwarrior/UDA.hs b/src/Taskwarrior/UDA.hs
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Taskwarrior/UDA.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+-- | User defined attributes are stored in a HashMap from Text to json Values because we have no type information about them.
+module Taskwarrior.UDA
+  ( UDA
+  )
+where
+
+import           Data.Text                      ( Text )
+import           Data.HashMap.Strict            ( HashMap )
+import           Data.Aeson                     ( Value )
+
+-- | A field will in practice only be a number or a string.
+type UDA = HashMap Text Value
diff --git a/taskwarrior.cabal b/taskwarrior.cabal
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/taskwarrior.cabal
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+cabal-version:      2.4
+name:               taskwarrior
+
+-- PVP summary:     +-+------- breaking API changes
+--                  | | +----- non-breaking API additions
+--                  | | | +--- code changes with no API change
+version:            0.1.0.0
+synopsis:           Types and aeson instances for taskwarrior tasks
+description:
+  Types and aeson instances for the https://taskwarrior.org task import/export feature
+
+homepage:           https://github.com/maralorn/haskell-taskwarrior
+bug-reports:        https://github.com/maralorn/haskell-taskwarrior/issues
+license:            AGPL-3.0-or-later
+license-file:       LICENSE
+author:             Malte Brandy
+maintainer:         malte.brandy@maralorn.de
+category:           Taskwarrior, Data
+extra-source-files:
+  CHANGELOG.md
+  README.md
+
+library
+  ghc-options:        -Wall
+  exposed-modules:
+    Taskwarrior.Annotation
+    Taskwarrior.IO
+    Taskwarrior.Mask
+    Taskwarrior.Priority
+    Taskwarrior.Status
+    Taskwarrior.Task
+    Taskwarrior.Time
+    Taskwarrior.UDA
+
+  default-extensions:
+    LambdaCase
+    OverloadedStrings
+    QuasiQuotes
+    RecordWildCards
+
+  build-depends:
+    , aeson                 ^>=1.4.5.0
+    , base                  >=4.12     && <4.14
+    , bytestring            ^>=0.10.8.2
+    , process               ^>=1.6.5.0
+    , string-interpolate    ^>=0.1.0.1
+    , text                  ^>=1.2.3.1
+    , time                  >=1.8.0.2  && <1.10
+    , unordered-containers  ^>=0.2.10.0
+    , uuid                  ^>=1.3.13
+
+  hs-source-dirs:     src
+  default-language:   Haskell2010
+
+test-suite test-taskwarrior
+  ghc-options:        -Wall -Wno-orphans
+  type:               exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  hs-source-dirs:     test
+  main-is:            Spec.hs
+  build-tool-depends: hspec-discover:hspec-discover -any
+  other-modules:      TaskSpec
+  build-depends:
+    , aeson
+    , base
+    , hspec                 ^>=2.7.1
+    , QuickCheck            ^>=2.13.2
+    , quickcheck-instances  ^>=0.3.22
+    , taskwarrior
+    , text
+    , time
+    , unordered-containers
+    , uuid
+
+  default-language:   Haskell2010
diff --git a/test/Spec.hs b/test/Spec.hs
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/test/Spec.hs
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+{-# OPTIONS_GHC -F -pgmF hspec-discover #-}
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+{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards #-}
+module TaskSpec
+  ( spec
+  )
+where
+
+import           Test.Hspec
+import           Test.QuickCheck
+import           Data.Aeson
+import           Taskwarrior.Task
+import           Taskwarrior.Mask
+import           Taskwarrior.Status
+import           Taskwarrior.Annotation
+import           Taskwarrior.Priority
+import           Data.Time
+import qualified Data.HashMap.Strict           as HashMap
+import           Test.QuickCheck.Instances.Text ( )
+import           Test.QuickCheck.Instances.UUID ( )
+import           Test.QuickCheck.Instances.UnorderedContainers
+                                                ( )
+
+
+prop_taskDeEncode :: Task -> Property
+prop_taskDeEncode task = Just task === decode (encode task)
+
+prop_taskReadShow :: Task -> Property
+prop_taskReadShow task = task === (read . show $ task)
+
+spec :: Spec
+spec = do
+  it "will be the same after read . show" $ property prop_taskReadShow
+  it "will be the same after encoding to JSON and decoding"
+    $ property prop_taskDeEncode
+
+instance Arbitrary MaskState where
+  arbitrary = arbitraryBoundedEnum
+
+instance Arbitrary Mask where
+  arbitrary = Mask <$> (arbitrary :: Gen [MaskState])
+
+instance Arbitrary Status where
+  arbitrary = oneof
+    [ pure Pending
+    , Deleted <$> arbitrary
+    , Completed <$> arbitrary
+    , Waiting <$> arbitrary
+    , RecurringParent <$> arbitrary <*> arbitrary
+    , RecurringChild <$> arbitrary <*> arbitrary <*> arbitrary
+    ]
+
+instance Arbitrary UTCTime where
+  arbitrary = do
+    day     <- ModifiedJulianDay <$> arbitrary
+    dayTime <- secondsToDiffTime <$> choose (0, 86400)
+    pure $ UTCTime day dayTime
+
+instance Arbitrary Annotation where
+  arbitrary = do
+    entry       <- arbitrary
+    description <- arbitrary
+    pure Annotation { .. }
+
+instance Arbitrary Priority where
+  arbitrary = arbitraryBoundedEnum
+
+instance Arbitrary Task where
+  arbitrary = do
+    status      <- arbitrary
+    uuid        <- arbitrary
+    entry       <- arbitrary
+    description <- arbitrary
+    start       <- arbitrary
+    modified    <- arbitrary
+    due         <- arbitrary
+    until_      <- arbitrary
+    annotations <- arbitrary
+    scheduled   <- arbitrary
+    project     <- arbitrary
+    priority    <- arbitrary
+    depends     <- arbitrary
+    tags        <- arbitrary
+    uda <- HashMap.fromList . fmap (\(x, y) -> (x, String y)) <$> arbitrary
+    pure Task { until = until_, .. }
