//
//  NSObject+YAJL.h
//  YAJL
//
//  Created by Gabriel Handford on 7/23/09.
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#import "YAJLGen.h"
#import "YAJLParser.h"

/*!
 Generate JSON string from NSArray, NSDictionary or custom object or parse JSON from NSString or custom object.
 
 Parse JSON:
 @code
 NSData *JSONData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:@"example.json"];
 NSArray *arrayFromData = [JSONData yajl_JSON];
 
 NSString *JSONString = @"[\"Test\"]";
 NSArray *arrayFromString = [JSONString yajl_JSON];
 
 // With options and out error
 NSError *error = nil;
 NSArray *arrayFromString = [JSONString yajl_JSONWithOptions:YAJLParserOptionsAllowComments error:&error];
 @endcode
 
 Generate JSON:
 @code
 NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:@"value" forKey:@"key"];
 NSString *JSONString = [dict yajl_JSONString];
 
 // Beautified with custon indent string
 NSArray *array = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"value1", @"value2", nil];
 NSString *JSONString = [dict yajl_JSONStringWithOptions:YAJLGenOptionsBeautify indentString:@"    "];
 @endcode
 */
@interface NSObject(YAJL)

#pragma mark Gen

/*!
 Create JSON string from object.
 Supported objects include: NSArray, NSDictionary, NSNumber, NSString, NSNull
 To override JSON value to encode (or support custom objects), implement (id)JSON; See YAJLCoding in YAJLGen.h
 @throws YAJLGenInvalidObjectException If object is invalid
 @result JSON String
 */
@property (NS_NONATOMIC_IOSONLY, readonly, copy) NSString *yajl_JSONString;

/*!
 Create JSON string from object.
 Supported objects include: NSArray, NSDictionary, NSNumber, NSString, NSNull
 To override JSON value to encode (or support custom objects), implement (id)JSON; See YAJLCoding in YAJLGen.h
 @throws YAJLGenInvalidObjectException If object is invalid
 @param options
  - YAJLGenOptionsNone: No options
  - YAJLGenOptionsBeautify: Beautifiy JSON output
  - YAJLGenOptionsIgnoreUnknownTypes: Ignore unknown types (will use null value)
  - YAJLGenOptionsIncludeUnsupportedTypes: Handle non-JSON types (including NSDate, NSData, NSURL) 
 
 @param indentString
 @result JSON String
 */
- (NSString *)yajl_JSONStringWithOptions:(YAJLGenOptions)options indentString:(NSString *)indentString;


#pragma mark Parsing

/*!
 Parse JSON (NSString or NSData or dataUsingEncoding:).
 @result JSON object
 @throws YAJLParserException If a parse error occured
 @throws YAJLParsingUnsupportedException If not NSData or doesn't respond to dataUsingEncoding:
 
 @code
 NSString *JSONString = @"{'foo':['bar', true]}";
 id JSONValue = [JSONString yajl_JSON];
 
 NSData *JSONData = ...;
 id JSONValue = [JSONData yajl_JSON];
 @endcode
 */
@property (NS_NONATOMIC_IOSONLY, readonly, strong) id yajl_JSON;

/*!
 Parse JSON (NSString or NSData or dataUsingEncoding:) with out error.
 
 If an error occurs, the returned object will be the current state of the object when
 the error occurred.

 @param error Error to set if we failed to parse
 @result JSON object
 @throws YAJLParserException If a parse error occured
 @throws YAJLParsingUnsupportedException If not NSData or doesn't respond to dataUsingEncoding:
 
 @code
 NSString *JSONString = @"{'foo':['bar', true]}";
 NSError *error = nil;
 [JSONString yajl_JSON:error];
 if (error) ...;
 @endcode
 */
- (id)yajl_JSON:(NSError **)error;

/*!
 Parse JSON (NSString or NSData or dataUsingEncoding:) with options and out error.
 
 If an error occurs, the returned object will be the current state of the object when
 the error occurred.
 
 @param options Parse options
  - YAJLParserOptionsNone: No options
  - YAJLParserOptionsAllowComments: Javascript style comments will be allowed in the input (both /&asterisk; &asterisk;/ and //)
  - YAJLParserOptionsCheckUTF8: Invalid UTF8 strings will cause a parse error
  - YAJLParserOptionsStrictPrecision: If YES will force strict precision and return integer overflow error
 
 @param error Error to set if we failed to parse
 @result JSON object
 @throws YAJLParserException If a parse error occured
 @throws YAJLParsingUnsupportedException If not NSData or doesn't respond to dataUsingEncoding:
 
 @code
 NSString *JSONString = @"{'foo':['bar', true]} // comment";
 NSError *error = nil;
 [JSONString yajl_JSONWithOptions:YAJLParserOptionsAllowComments error:error];
 if (error) ...;
 @endcode
 */
- (id)yajl_JSONWithOptions:(YAJLParserOptions)options error:(NSError **)error;

@end

