Ich versuche, Json in meine Fallklasse zu analysierenDealFormMap

case class DealFormMap(limit: Option[Int], filter: Option[DealFormFilterMap])
case class DealFormFilterMap(date: Option[String], code: Option[String])

implicit val dealFormMapReads: Reads[DealFormMap] = (
    (JsPath \ "limit").readNullable[Int] and
    (JsPath \ "filter").readNullable[DealFormFilterMap]
)(DealFormMap)

implicit val dealFormFilterMapReads: Reads[DealFormFilterMap] = (
    (JsPath \ "date").readNullable[String] and
    (JsPath \ "code").readNullable[String]
)(DealFormFilterMap)

JSON in Frage und Analyseversuch

val str = """{"limit":10,"filter":{"date":"2014-10-27"}}"""
val frm = Json.parse(str).as[DealFormMap]

verursacht einen kryptischen Fehler-Stack, den ich einfach nicht knacken kann

play.api.Application$anon$1: Execution exception[[NullPointerException: null]]
    at play.api.Application$class.handleError(Application.scala:296) ~[play_2.11-2.3.5.jar:2.3.5]
    at play.api.DefaultApplication.handleError(Application.scala:402) [play_2.11-2.3.5.jar:2.3.5]
    at play.core.server.netty.PlayDefaultUpstreamHandler$anonfun$14$anonfun$apply$1.applyOrElse(PlayDefaultUpstreamHandler.scala:205) [play_2.11-2.3.5.jar:2.3.5]
    at play.core.server.netty.PlayDefaultUpstreamHandler$anonfun$14$anonfun$apply$1.applyOrElse(PlayDefaultUpstreamHandler.scala:202) [play_2.11-2.3.5.jar:2.3.5]
    at scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction.apply(AbstractPartialFunction.scala:36) [scala-library-2.11.2.jar:na]
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    at play.api.libs.json.PathReads$anonfun$nullable$1$anonfun$apply$7$anonfun$apply$9.apply(JsConstraints.scala:65) ~[play-json_2.11-2.3.5.jar:2.3.5]
    at play.api.libs.json.PathReads$anonfun$nullable$1$anonfun$apply$7$anonfun$apply$9.apply(JsConstraints.scala:63) ~[play-json_2.11-2.3.5.jar:2.3.5]
    at play.api.libs.json.JsResult$class.fold(JsResult.scala:76) ~[play-json_2.11-2.3.5.jar:2.3.5]
    at play.api.libs.json.JsSuccess.fold(JsResult.scala:9) ~[play-json_2.11-2.3.5.jar:2.3.5]
    at play.api.libs.json.PathReads$anonfun$nullable$1$anonfun$apply$7.apply(JsConstraints.scala:61) ~[play-json_2.11-2.3.5.jar:2.3.5]

Mir gehen hier die Ideen aus, was könnte das Problem sein?