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data/lib/json.rb

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+require 'json/common'
+# = json - JSON for Ruby
+#
+# == Description
+#
+# This is a implementation of the JSON specification according to RFC 4627
+# (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt). Starting from version 1.0.0 on there
+# will be two variants available:
+#
+# * A pure ruby variant, that relies on the iconv and the stringscan
+#   extensions, which are both part of the ruby standard library.
+# * The quite a bit faster C extension variant, which is in parts implemented
+#   in C and comes with its own unicode conversion functions and a parser
+#   generated by the ragel state machine compiler
+#   (http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~thurston/ragel).
+#
+# Both variants of the JSON generator escape all non-ASCII an control
+# characters with \uXXXX escape sequences, and support UTF-16 surrogate pairs
+# in order to be able to generate the whole range of unicode code points. This
+# means that generated JSON text is encoded as UTF-8 (because ASCII is a subset
+# of UTF-8) and at the same time avoids decoding problems for receiving
+# endpoints, that don't expect UTF-8 encoded texts. On the negative side this
+# may lead to a bit longer strings than necessarry.
+#
+# All strings, that are to be encoded as JSON strings, should be UTF-8 byte
+# sequences on the Ruby side. To encode raw binary strings, that aren't UTF-8
+# encoded, please use the to_json_raw_object method of String (which produces
+# an object, that contains a byte array) and decode the result on the receiving
+# endpoint.
+#
+# == Author
+#
+# Florian Frank <mailto:flori@ping.de>
+#
+# == License
+#
+# This software is distributed under the same license as Ruby itself, see
+# http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt.
+#
+# == Download
+#
+# The latest version of this library can be downloaded at
+#
+# * http://rubyforge.org/frs?group_id=953
+#
+# Online Documentation should be located at
+#
+# * http://json.rubyforge.org
+#
+# == Usage
+# 
+# To use JSON you can
+#   require 'json'
+# to load the installed variant (either the extension 'json' or the pure
+# variant 'json_pure'). If you have installed the extension variant, you can
+# pick either the extension variant or the pure variant by typing
+#   require 'json/ext'
+# or
+#   require 'json/pure'
+#
+# You can choose to load a set of common additions to ruby core's objects if
+# you
+#   require 'json/add/core'
+#
+# After requiring this you can, e. g., serialise/deserialise Ruby ranges:
+#
+#   JSON JSON(1..10) # => 1..10
+#
+# To find out how to add JSON support to other or your own classes, read the
+# Examples section below.
+#
+# To get the best compatibility to rails' JSON implementation, you can
+#   require 'json/add/rails'
+#
+# Both of the additions attempt to require 'json' (like above) first, if it has
+# not been required yet.
+#
+# == Speed Comparisons
+#
+# I have created some benchmark results (see the benchmarks subdir of the
+# package) for the JSON-Parser to estimate the speed up in the C extension:
+#
+# JSON::Pure::Parser::  28.90  calls/second
+# JSON::Ext::Parser::  505.50 calls/second
+#
+# This is ca. <b>17.5</b> times the speed of the pure Ruby implementation.
+#
+# I have benchmarked the JSON-Generator as well. This generates a few more
+# values, because there are different modes, that also influence the achieved
+# speed:
+#
+# * JSON::Pure::Generator:
+#   generate::        35.06 calls/second
+#   pretty_generate:: 34.00 calls/second
+#   fast_generate::   41.06 calls/second
+#
+# * JSON::Ext::Generator:
+#   generate::        492.11 calls/second
+#   pretty_generate:: 348.85 calls/second
+#   fast_generate::   541.60 calls/second
+#
+# * Speedup Ext/Pure:
+#   generate safe::   14.0 times
+#   generate pretty:: 10.3 times
+#   generate fast::   13.2 times
+#
+# The rails framework includes a generator as well, also it seems to be rather
+# slow: I measured only 23.87 calls/second which is slower than any of my pure
+# generator results. Here a comparison of the different speedups with the Rails
+# measurement as the divisor:
+#
+# * Speedup Pure/Rails:
+#   generate safe::   1.5 times
+#   generate pretty:: 1.4 times
+#   generate fast::   1.7 times
+#
+# * Speedup Ext/Rails:
+#   generate safe::   20.6 times
+#   generate pretty:: 14.6 times
+#   generate fast::   22.7 times
+#
+# To achieve the fastest JSON text output, you can use the
+# fast_generate/fast_unparse methods. Beware, that this will disable the
+# checking for circular Ruby data structures, which may cause JSON to go into
+# an infinite loop.
+#
+# == Examples
+#
+# To create a JSON text from a ruby data structure, you
+# can call JSON.generate (or JSON.unparse) like that:
+#
+#  json = JSON.generate [1, 2, {"a"=>3.141}, false, true, nil, 4..10]
+#  # => "[1,2,{\"a\":3.141},false,true,null,\"4..10\"]"
+#
+# To create a valid JSON text you have to make sure, that the output is
+# embedded in either a JSON array [] or a JSON object {}. The easiest way to do
+# this, is by putting your values in a Ruby Array or Hash instance.
+#
+# To get back a ruby data structure from a JSON text, you have to call
+# JSON.parse on it:
+#
+#  JSON.parse json
+#  # => [1, 2, {"a"=>3.141}, false, true, nil, "4..10"]
+# 
+# Note, that the range from the original data structure is a simple
+# string now. The reason for this is, that JSON doesn't support ranges
+# or arbitrary classes. In this case the json library falls back to call
+# Object#to_json, which is the same as #to_s.to_json.
+#
+# It's possible to add JSON support serialization to arbitrary classes by
+# simply implementing a more specialized version of the #to_json method, that
+# should return a JSON object (a hash converted to JSON with #to_json) like
+# this (don't forget the *a for all the arguments):
+#
+#  class Range
+#    def to_json(*a)
+#      {
+#        'json_class'   => self.class.name, # = 'Range'
+#        'data'         => [ first, last, exclude_end? ]
+#      }.to_json(*a)
+#    end
+#  end
+#
+# The hash key 'json_class' is the class, that will be asked to deserialise the
+# JSON representation later. In this case it's 'Range', but any namespace of
+# the form 'A::B' or '::A::B' will do. All other keys are arbitrary and can be
+# used to store the necessary data to configure the object to be deserialised.
+#
+# If a the key 'json_class' is found in a JSON object, the JSON parser checks
+# if the given class responds to the json_create class method. If so, it is
+# called with the JSON object converted to a Ruby hash. So a range can
+# be deserialised by implementing Range.json_create like this:
+# 
+#  class Range
+#    def self.json_create(o)
+#      new(*o['data'])
+#    end
+#  end
+#
+# Now it possible to serialise/deserialise ranges as well:
+#
+#  json = JSON.generate [1, 2, {"a"=>3.141}, false, true, nil, 4..10]
+#  # => "[1,2,{\"a\":3.141},false,true,null,{\"json_class\":\"Range\",\"data\":[4,10,false]}]"
+#  JSON.parse json
+#  # => [1, 2, {"a"=>3.141}, false, true, nil, 4..10]
+#
+# JSON.generate always creates the shortest possible string representation of a
+# ruby data structure in one line. This good for data storage or network
+# protocols, but not so good for humans to read. Fortunately there's also
+# JSON.pretty_generate (or JSON.pretty_generate) that creates a more
+# readable output:
+#
+#  puts JSON.pretty_generate([1, 2, {"a"=>3.141}, false, true, nil, 4..10])
+#  [
+#    1,
+#    2,
+#    {
+#      "a": 3.141
+#    },
+#    false,
+#    true,
+#    null,
+#    {
+#      "json_class": "Range",
+#      "data": [
+#        4,
+#        10,
+#        false
+#      ]
+#    }
+#  ]
+#
+# There are also the methods Kernel#j for unparse, and Kernel#jj for
+# pretty_unparse output to the console, that work analogous to Core Ruby's p
+# and the pp library's pp methods.
+#
+# The script tools/server.rb contains a small example if you want to test, how
+# receiving a JSON object from a webrick server in your browser with the
+# javasript prototype library (http://www.prototypejs.org) works.
+#
+module JSON
+  require 'json/version'
+
+  if VARIANT_BINARY
+    require 'json/ext'
+  else
+    begin
+      require 'json/ext'
+    rescue LoadError
+      require 'json/pure'
+    end
+  end
+
+  JSON_LOADED = true
+end

data/lib/json/add/core.rb

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+# This file contains implementations of ruby core's custom objects for
+# serialisation/deserialisation.
+
+unless Object.const_defined?(:JSON) and ::JSON.const_defined?(:JSON_LOADED) and
+  ::JSON::JSON_LOADED
+  require 'json'
+end
+require 'date'
+
+class Time
+  def self.json_create(object)
+    if usec = object.delete('u') # used to be tv_usec -> tv_nsec
+      object['n'] = usec * 1000
+    end
+    if respond_to?(:tv_nsec)
+      at(*object.values_at('s', 'n'))
+    else
+      at(object['s'], object['n'] / 1000)
+    end
+  end
+
+  def to_json(*args)
+    {
+      'json_class' => self.class.name,
+      's' => tv_sec,
+      'n' => respond_to?(:tv_nsec) ? tv_nsec : tv_usec * 1000
+    }.to_json(*args)
+  end
+end
+
+class Date
+  def self.json_create(object)
+    civil(*object.values_at('y', 'm', 'd', 'sg'))
+  end
+
+  def to_json(*args)
+    {
+      'json_class' => self.class.name,
+      'y' => year,
+      'm' => month,
+      'd' => day,
+      'sg' => sg,
+    }.to_json(*args)
+  end
+end
+
+class DateTime
+  def self.json_create(object)
+    args = object.values_at('y', 'm', 'd', 'H', 'M', 'S')
+    of_a, of_b = object['of'].split('/')
+    args << Rational(of_a.to_i, of_b.to_i)
+    args << object['sg']
+    civil(*args)
+  end
+
+  def to_json(*args)
+    {
+      'json_class' => self.class.name,
+      'y' => year,
+      'm' => month,
+      'd' => day,
+      'H' => hour,
+      'M' => min,
+      'S' => sec,
+      'of' => offset.to_s,
+      'sg' => sg,
+    }.to_json(*args)
+  end
+end
+
+class Range
+  def self.json_create(object)
+    new(*object['a'])
+  end
+
+  def to_json(*args)
+    {
+      'json_class'   => self.class.name,
+      'a'         => [ first, last, exclude_end? ]
+    }.to_json(*args)
+  end
+end
+
+class Struct
+  def self.json_create(object)
+    new(*object['v'])
+  end
+
+  def to_json(*args)
+    klass = self.class.name
+    klass.empty? and raise JSON::JSONError, "Only named structs are supported!"
+    {
+      'json_class' => klass,
+      'v'     => values,
+    }.to_json(*args)
+  end
+end
+
+class Exception
+  def self.json_create(object)
+    result = new(object['m'])
+    result.set_backtrace object['b']
+    result
+  end
+
+  def to_json(*args)
+    {
+      'json_class' => self.class.name,
+      'm'   => message,
+      'b' => backtrace,
+    }.to_json(*args)
+  end
+end
+
+class Regexp
+  def self.json_create(object)
+    new(object['s'], object['o'])
+  end
+
+  def to_json(*)
+    {
+      'json_class' => self.class.name,
+      'o' => options,
+      's' => source,
+    }.to_json
+  end
+end

data/lib/json/add/rails.rb

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+# This file contains implementations of rails custom objects for
+# serialisation/deserialisation.
+
+unless Object.const_defined?(:JSON) and ::JSON.const_defined?(:JSON_LOADED) and
+  ::JSON::JSON_LOADED
+  require 'json'
+end
+
+class Object
+  def self.json_create(object)
+    obj = new
+    for key, value in object
+      next if key == 'json_class'
+      instance_variable_set "@#{key}", value
+    end
+    obj
+  end
+
+  def to_json(*a)
+    result = {
+      'json_class' => self.class.name
+    }
+    instance_variables.inject(result) do |r, name|
+      r[name[1..-1]] = instance_variable_get name
+      r
+    end
+    result.to_json(*a)
+  end
+end
+
+class Symbol
+  def to_json(*a)
+    to_s.to_json(*a)
+  end
+end
+
+module Enumerable
+  def to_json(*a)
+    to_a.to_json(*a)
+  end
+end
+
+# class Regexp
+#   def to_json(*)
+#     inspect
+#   end
+# end
+#
+# The above rails definition has some problems:
+#
+# 1. { 'foo' => /bar/ }.to_json # => "{foo: /bar/}"
+#    This isn't valid JSON, because the regular expression syntax is not
+#    defined in RFC 4627. (And unquoted strings are disallowed there, too.)
+#    Though it is valid Javascript.
+#
+# 2. { 'foo' => /bar/mix }.to_json # => "{foo: /bar/mix}"
+#    This isn't even valid Javascript.
+

data/lib/json/common.rb

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+require 'json/version'
+
+module JSON
+  class << self
+    # If _object_ is string like parse the string and return the parsed result
+    # as a Ruby data structure. Otherwise generate a JSON text from the Ruby
+    # data structure object and return it.
+    #
+    # The _opts_ argument is passed through to generate/parse respectively, see
+    # generate and parse for their documentation.
+    def [](object, opts = {})
+      if object.respond_to? :to_str
+        JSON.parse(object.to_str, opts => {})
+      else
+        JSON.generate(object, opts => {})
+      end
+    end
+
+    # Returns the JSON parser class, that is used by JSON. This might be either
+    # JSON::Ext::Parser or JSON::Pure::Parser.
+    attr_reader :parser
+
+    # Set the JSON parser class _parser_ to be used by JSON.
+    def parser=(parser) # :nodoc:
+      @parser = parser
+      remove_const :Parser if const_defined? :Parser
+      const_set :Parser, parser
+    end
+
+    # Return the constant located at _path_. The format of _path_ has to be
+    # either ::A::B::C or A::B::C. In any case A has to be located at the top
+    # level (absolute namespace path?). If there doesn't exist a constant at
+    # the given path, an ArgumentError is raised.
+    def deep_const_get(path) # :nodoc:
+      path = path.to_s
+      path.split(/::/).inject(Object) do |p, c|
+        case
+        when c.empty?             then p
+        when p.const_defined?(c)  then p.const_get(c)
+        else                      raise ArgumentError, "can't find const #{path}"
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
+    # Set the module _generator_ to be used by JSON.
+    def generator=(generator) # :nodoc:
+      @generator = generator
+      generator_methods = generator::GeneratorMethods
+      for const in generator_methods.constants
+        klass = deep_const_get(const)
+        modul = generator_methods.const_get(const)
+        klass.class_eval do
+          instance_methods(false).each do |m|
+            m.to_s == 'to_json' and remove_method m
+          end
+          include modul
+        end
+      end
+      self.state = generator::State
+      const_set :State, self.state
+    end
+
+    # Returns the JSON generator modul, that is used by JSON. This might be
+    # either JSON::Ext::Generator or JSON::Pure::Generator.
+    attr_reader :generator
+
+    # Returns the JSON generator state class, that is used by JSON. This might
+    # be either JSON::Ext::Generator::State or JSON::Pure::Generator::State.
+    attr_accessor :state
+
+    # This is create identifier, that is used to decide, if the _json_create_
+    # hook of a class should be called. It defaults to 'json_class'.
+    attr_accessor :create_id
+  end
+  self.create_id = 'json_class'
+
+  NaN           = (-1.0) ** 0.5
+
+  Infinity      = 1.0/0
+
+  MinusInfinity = -Infinity
+
+  # The base exception for JSON errors.
+  class JSONError < StandardError; end
+
+  # This exception is raised, if a parser error occurs.
+  class ParserError < JSONError; end
+
+  # This exception is raised, if the nesting of parsed datastructures is too
+  # deep.
+  class NestingError < ParserError; end
+
+  # This exception is raised, if a generator or unparser error occurs.
+  class GeneratorError < JSONError; end
+  # For backwards compatibility
+  UnparserError = GeneratorError
+
+  # If a circular data structure is encountered while unparsing
+  # this exception is raised.
+  class CircularDatastructure < GeneratorError; end
+
+  # This exception is raised, if the required unicode support is missing on the
+  # system. Usually this means, that the iconv library is not installed.
+  class MissingUnicodeSupport < JSONError; end
+
+  module_function
+
+  # Parse the JSON string _source_ into a Ruby data structure and return it.
+  #
+  # _opts_ can have the following
+  # keys:
+  # * *max_nesting*: The maximum depth of nesting allowed in the parsed data
+  #   structures. Disable depth checking with :max_nesting => false, it defaults
+  #   to 19.
+  # * *allow_nan*: If set to true, allow NaN, Infinity and -Infinity in
+  #   defiance of RFC 4627 to be parsed by the Parser. This option defaults
+  #   to false.
+  # * *create_additions*: If set to false, the Parser doesn't create
+  #   additions even if a matchin class and create_id was found. This option
+  #   defaults to true.
+  def parse(source, opts = {})
+    JSON.parser.new(source, opts).parse
+  end
+
+  # Parse the JSON string _source_ into a Ruby data structure and return it.
+  # The bang version of the parse method, defaults to the more dangerous values
+  # for the _opts_ hash, so be sure only to parse trusted _source_ strings.
+  #
+  # _opts_ can have the following keys:
+  # * *max_nesting*: The maximum depth of nesting allowed in the parsed data
+  #   structures. Enable depth checking with :max_nesting => anInteger. The parse!
+  #   methods defaults to not doing max depth checking: This can be dangerous,
+  #   if someone wants to fill up your stack.
+  # * *allow_nan*: If set to true, allow NaN, Infinity, and -Infinity in
+  #   defiance of RFC 4627 to be parsed by the Parser. This option defaults
+  #   to true.
+  # * *create_additions*: If set to false, the Parser doesn't create
+  #   additions even if a matchin class and create_id was found. This option
+  #   defaults to true.
+  def parse!(source, opts = {})
+    opts = {
+      :max_nesting => false,
+      :allow_nan => true
+    }.update(opts)
+    JSON.parser.new(source, opts).parse
+  end
+
+  # Unparse the Ruby data structure _obj_ into a single line JSON string and
+  # return it. _state_ is
+  # * a JSON::State object,
+  # * or a Hash like object (responding to to_hash),
+  # * an object convertible into a hash by a to_h method,
+  # that is used as or to configure a State object.
+  #
+  # It defaults to a state object, that creates the shortest possible JSON text
+  # in one line, checks for circular data structures and doesn't allow NaN,
+  # Infinity, and -Infinity.
+  #
+  # A _state_ hash can have the following keys:
+  # * *indent*: a string used to indent levels (default: ''),
+  # * *space*: a string that is put after, a : or , delimiter (default: ''),
+  # * *space_before*: a string that is put before a : pair delimiter (default: ''),
+  # * *object_nl*: a string that is put at the end of a JSON object (default: ''), 
+  # * *array_nl*: a string that is put at the end of a JSON array (default: ''),
+  # * *check_circular*: true if checking for circular data structures
+  #   should be done (the default), false otherwise.
+  # * *allow_nan*: true if NaN, Infinity, and -Infinity should be
+  #   generated, otherwise an exception is thrown, if these values are
+  #   encountered. This options defaults to false.
+  # * *max_nesting*: The maximum depth of nesting allowed in the data
+  #   structures from which JSON is to be generated. Disable depth checking
+  #   with :max_nesting => false, it defaults to 19.
+  #
+  # See also the fast_generate for the fastest creation method with the least
+  # amount of sanity checks, and the pretty_generate method for some
+  # defaults for a pretty output.
+  def generate(obj, state = nil)
+    if state
+      state = State.from_state(state)
+    else
+      state = State.new
+    end
+    obj.to_json(state)
+  end
+
+  # :stopdoc:
+  # I want to deprecate these later, so I'll first be silent about them, and later delete them.
+  alias unparse generate
+  module_function :unparse
+  # :startdoc:
+
+  # Unparse the Ruby data structure _obj_ into a single line JSON string and
+  # return it. This method disables the checks for circles in Ruby objects, and
+  # also generates NaN, Infinity, and, -Infinity float values.
+  #
+  # *WARNING*: Be careful not to pass any Ruby data structures with circles as
+  # _obj_ argument, because this will cause JSON to go into an infinite loop.
+  def fast_generate(obj)
+    obj.to_json(nil)
+  end
+
+  # :stopdoc:
+  # I want to deprecate these later, so I'll first be silent about them, and later delete them.
+  alias fast_unparse fast_generate
+  module_function :fast_unparse
+  # :startdoc:
+
+  # Unparse the Ruby data structure _obj_ into a JSON string and return it. The
+  # returned string is a prettier form of the string returned by #unparse.
+  #
+  # The _opts_ argument can be used to configure the generator, see the
+  # generate method for a more detailed explanation.
+  def pretty_generate(obj, opts = nil)
+    state = JSON.state.new(
+      :indent     => '  ',
+      :space      => ' ',
+      :object_nl  => "\n",
+      :array_nl   => "\n",
+      :check_circular => true
+    )
+    if opts
+      if opts.respond_to? :to_hash
+        opts = opts.to_hash
+      elsif opts.respond_to? :to_h
+        opts = opts.to_h
+      else
+        raise TypeError, "can't convert #{opts.class} into Hash"
+      end
+      state.configure(opts)
+    end
+    obj.to_json(state)
+  end
+
+  # :stopdoc:
+  # I want to deprecate these later, so I'll first be silent about them, and later delete them.
+  alias pretty_unparse pretty_generate
+  module_function :pretty_unparse
+  # :startdoc:
+
+  # Load a ruby data structure from a JSON _source_ and return it. A source can
+  # either be a string like object, an IO like object, or an object responding
+  # to the read method. If _proc_ was given, it will be called with any nested
+  # Ruby object as an argument recursively in depth first order.
+  #
+  # This method is part of the implementation of the load/dump interface of
+  # Marshal and YAML.
+  def load(source, proc = nil)
+    if source.respond_to? :to_str
+      source = source.to_str
+    elsif source.respond_to? :to_io
+      source = source.to_io.read
+    else
+      source = source.read
+    end
+    result = parse(source, :max_nesting => false, :allow_nan => true)
+    recurse_proc(result, &proc) if proc
+    result
+  end
+
+  def recurse_proc(result, &proc)
+    case result
+    when Array
+      result.each { |x| recurse_proc x, &proc }
+      proc.call result
+    when Hash
+      result.each { |x, y| recurse_proc x, &proc; recurse_proc y, &proc }
+      proc.call result
+    else
+      proc.call result
+    end
+  end
+  private :recurse_proc
+  module_function :recurse_proc
+
+  alias restore load
+  module_function :restore
+
+  # Dumps _obj_ as a JSON string, i.e. calls generate on the object and returns
+  # the result.
+  #
+  # If anIO (an IO like object or an object that responds to the write method)
+  # was given, the resulting JSON is written to it.
+  #
+  # If the number of nested arrays or objects exceeds _limit_ an ArgumentError
+  # exception is raised. This argument is similar (but not exactly the
+  # same!) to the _limit_ argument in Marshal.dump.
+  #
+  # This method is part of the implementation of the load/dump interface of
+  # Marshal and YAML.
+  def dump(obj, anIO = nil, limit = nil)
+    if anIO and limit.nil?
+      anIO = anIO.to_io if anIO.respond_to?(:to_io)
+      unless anIO.respond_to?(:write)
+        limit = anIO
+        anIO = nil
+      end
+    end
+    limit ||= 0
+    result = generate(obj, :allow_nan => true, :max_nesting => limit)
+    if anIO
+      anIO.write result
+      anIO
+    else
+      result
+    end
+  rescue JSON::NestingError
+    raise ArgumentError, "exceed depth limit"
+  end
+end
+
+module ::Kernel
+  # Outputs _objs_ to STDOUT as JSON strings in the shortest form, that is in
+  # one line.
+  def j(*objs)
+    objs.each do |obj|
+      puts JSON::generate(obj, :allow_nan => true, :max_nesting => false)
+    end
+    nil
+  end
+
+  # Ouputs _objs_ to STDOUT as JSON strings in a pretty format, with
+  # indentation and over many lines.
+  def jj(*objs)
+    objs.each do |obj|
+      puts JSON::pretty_generate(obj, :allow_nan => true, :max_nesting => false)
+    end
+    nil
+  end
+
+  # If _object_ is string like parse the string and return the parsed result as
+  # a Ruby data structure. Otherwise generate a JSON text from the Ruby data
+  # structure object and return it.
+  #
+  # The _opts_ argument is passed through to generate/parse respectively, see
+  # generate and parse for their documentation.
+  def JSON(object, opts = {})
+    if object.respond_to? :to_str
+      JSON.parse(object.to_str, opts)
+    else
+      JSON.generate(object, opts)
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+class ::Class
+  # Returns true, if this class can be used to create an instance
+  # from a serialised JSON string. The class has to implement a class
+  # method _json_create_ that expects a hash as first parameter, which includes
+  # the required data.
+  def json_creatable?
+    respond_to?(:json_create)
+  end
+end
+  # vim: set et sw=2 ts=2: