gobject_to_data

Serializes a `GObject` instance into a JSON data stream, iterating recursively over each property.

If the given object implements the [[email protected]] interface, it will be asked to serialize all its properties; otherwise, the default implementation will be use to translate the compatible types into JSON native types.

Example: GObject serialization (string):

public enum MyEnum {
	FOO, BAR, FOOBAR
}

public class MyObject : Object {
	public string str { get; set; }
	public MyEnum en { get; set; }
	public int num { get; set; }

	public MyObject (string str, MyEnum en, int num) {
		this.str = str;
		this.num = num;
		this.en = en;
	}
}

public static int main (string[] args) {
	MyObject obj = new MyObject ("my string", MyEnum.FOOBAR, 10);

	string data = Json.gobject_to_data (obj, null);
	print (data);
	print ("\n");

	// Output:
	//	``{``
	//	``	"str" : "my string",``
	//	``	"en" : 2,``
	//	``	"num" : 10``
	//	``}``

	return 0;
}

valac --pkg json-glib-1.0 serialization-data.vala

Parameters:

gobject	the object to serialize
length	return value for the length of the buffer

Returns:

a JSON data stream representing the given object