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Java library for transforming beans, maps, collections, java arrays and XML to JSON.

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/*
 * Copyright 2002-2007 the original author or authors.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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package net.sf.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();
}