/*
Ousía
Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 Benjamin Paaßen, Andreas Stöckel
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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*/
/**
* @file VariantWriter.hpp
*
* Contains the VariantWriter class which provides serialization functions for
* Variant types.
*
* @author Andreas Stöckel (astoecke@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de)
*/
#ifndef _OUSIA_VARIANT_WRITER_HPP_
#define _OUSIA_VARIANT_WRITER_HPP_
#include
#include
namespace ousia {
// Forward declaration
class Variant;
/**
* Class which provides serialization functions for writing variants to an
* output stream in various formats.
*/
class VariantWriter {
public:
/**
* Dumps the Variant as JSON data. Note that the resulting JSON data is
* invalid if the Variant consists of function or object references.
*
* @param var is the variant that should be serialized.
* @param stream is the stream the result should be written to.
* @param pretty if true, the resulting value is properly indented.
*/
static void writeJson(const Variant &var, std::ostream &stream,
bool pretty = true);
/**
* Dumps the Variant as JSON data to a string.
*
* @param var is the variant that should be serialized.
* @param pretty if true, the resulting value is properly indented.
*/
static std::string writeJsonToString(const Variant &var,
bool pretty = true);
/**
* Dumps the Variant as re-readable ousia data. Note that the resulting
* data is invalid if the Variant consists of function or object references.
*
* @param var is the variant that should be serialized.
* @param stream is the stream the result should be written to.
* @param pretty if true, the resulting value is properly indented.
*/
static void writeOusia(const Variant &var, std::ostream &stream,
bool pretty = true);
/**
* Dumps the Variant as re-readable ousia data to a string.
*
* @param var is the variant that should be serialized.
* @param pretty if true, the resulting value is properly indented.
*/
static std::string writeOusiaToString(const Variant &var,
bool pretty = true);
};
}
#endif /* _OUSIA_VARIANT_WRITER_HPP_ */