Abstract
When programmers access external data in a statically typed programming language, they are often faced with a dilemma between convenient and type-safe access to the data. In the programming language F#, a concept called type providers has been proposed as a solution to this problem by having compiler support for libraries with the capability to generate types at compile time. This thesis presents "json_typegen", a project which aims to show the feasibility of similar solutions in the Rust programming language. The project uses compile-time metaprogramming along with alternative interfaces to the same code generation implementation to achieve convenient, type-safe access to data in the JSON data format. While JSON is chosen as the format for the presented library, the approach also applies to other data formats and sources.