src/ToJsonWriter.h

   1 //! \file ToJsonWriter.h
   2
   3 #ifndef _TOJSONWRITER_H
   4 #define _TOJSONWRITER_H
   5
   6 #include <string>
   7 #include "ADataOutput.h"
   8
   9 /*! Output module: write to json.
  10  * "ugly", non-human-readable JSON, though.
  11  */
  12 class ToJsonWriter : public ADataOutput
  13 {
  14 public:
  15     /*! Convert article to string representation of JSON representation.
  16      * \param a pointer to article to be converted
  17      * \return json as string
  18      * \internal uses the following format:
  19      * {"title":{"forward_links":[...]}}
  20      */
  21     std::string convertToJson(const Article* a);
  22
  23     /*! Convert article collection to string representation of JSON representation.
  24      * \param ac reference to article collection to be converted
  25      * \return json as string
  26      * \internal uses the following format:
  27      * {"title":{"forward_links":[...]}, "title2":{"forward_links":[...]}, ...}
  28      */
  29     std::string convertToJson(const ArticleCollection& ac);
  30
  31     //! Output JSON data to output stream
  32     virtual void output(const Article*, std::ostream&);
  33     //! Output JSON data to output stream
  34     virtual void output(const ArticleCollection&, std::ostream&);
  35 };
  36
  37 #endif // _TOJSONWRITER_H