1 /*
2 * Copyright 2002-2009 the original author or authors.
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package net.sf.json;
17
18 /**
19 * The <code>JSONString</code> interface allows a <code>toJSONString()</code>
20 * method so that a class can change the behavior of
21 * <code>JSONObject.toString()</code>, <code>JSONArray.toString()</code>,
22 * and <code>JSONWriter.value(</code>Object<code>)</code>. The
23 * <code>toJSONString</code> method will be used instead of the default
24 * behavior of using the Object's <code>toString()</code> method and quoting
25 * the result.
26 */
27 public interface JSONString {
28 /**
29 * The <code>toJSONString</code> method allows a class to produce its own
30 * JSON serialization.
31 *
32 * @return A strictly syntactically correct JSON text.
33 */
34 public String toJSONString();
35 }