toJSON on par with toString

[juan_gandhi]

I've been thinking lately... say, you are writing a pojo, and it is a good practice to have a good toString(), right? How about toJSON/fromJSON? seems like it would be a good idea to have it everywhere as well, what do you think?

Comments

[cema.livejournal.com]

I think positively.

[selfmade.livejournal.com]

In C# we have extension methods - special static methods declared separately, but used as regular methods, pretty much like prototype methods in javascript.

public class MyClass {}

// declaration
public static class Ex
{
  public static string toJson<T>(this T obj) { /* serialize to json */ }
}

...

//usage
var myobj = new MyClass();
myobj.toJson();

[smalgin.livejournal.com]

yes yes yes yes