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A StAX implementation for JSON.

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/*
Copyright (c) 2002 JSON.org

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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*/
package org.codehaus.jettison.json;

/**
 * The JSONString interface allows a toJSONString() 
 * method so that a class can change the behavior of 
 * JSONObject.toString(), JSONArray.toString(),
 * and JSONWriter.value(Object). The 
 * toJSONString method will be used instead of the default behavior 
 * of using the Object's toString() method and quoting the result.
 */
public interface JSONString {
        /**
         * The toJSONString method allows a class to produce its own JSON 
         * serialization. 
         * 
         * @return A strictly syntactically correct JSON text.
         */
        public String toJSONString();
}