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NAME

MooX::TO_JSON - Generate a TO_JSON method from attributes.

SYNOPSIS

package Local::User;

use Moo;
use MooX::TO_JSON;

has name => (is=>'ro', json=>1);
has age => (is=>'ro', json=>'age-years,num');
has alive => (is=>'ro', json=>',bool');
has possibly_empty => (is=>'ro', json=>',omit_if_empty');
has not_encoded => (is=>'ro');

# Optional method to shove in some extra keys
sub modify_json {
  my ($self, %data) = @_;
  return (%data, extra_stuff => 1);
}

use JSON::MaybeXS;

my $json = JSON::MaybeXS->new(convert_blessed=>1);
my $user = Local::User->new(
  name=>'John',
  age=>25,
  alive=>'yes',
  not_encoded=>'internal');

my $encoded = $json->encode($user);

The value of $encoded is:

 {
    "alive" : true,
    "name" : "John",
    "age-years" : 25,
    "extra_stuff": 1
 }

Please note that the JSON spec does not preserve hash order, so the keys above could be arranged differently.

DESCRIPTION

Make it easier to correctly encode your Moo object into JSON. It does this by inspecting your attributes and injection a TO_JSON method into your class. You can tag how the attribute will serialize to JSON (forcing it into string or number / boolean).

has name => (is=>'ro', json=>1);

Setting the json argument to 1 will serialize the attribute value to JSON use the defaults (that is the field name is the same as the attribute name, value is serialized even if undef and no value coercions (to number or boolean for example) are forced).

has age => (is=>'ro', json=>'age-years,num');

Here age will be mapped to 'age-years' and the value forced into number context so that when the JSON encoder touches it the serialized value will be a number not a string.

has alive => (is=>'ro', json=>',bool');

In this case the value is forced to boolean JSON context.

has possibly_empty => (is=>'ro', json=>',omit_if_empty');

Lastly if the final tag in the 'json' string is 'omit_if_empty' we will omit including the field in the JSON output IF the attribute is not present (please note undef is considered 'present/existing'.) In order to do this we need to set a predicate arg for the attribute (or use one if you define it). This will slighly pollute the object namespace with the predicate method for each attribute you mark such.

Your class can also contain a method modify_json which takes the serialized attributes and allows you to add to them or modify them.

AUTHOR

John Napiorkowski (cpan:JJNAPIORK) <jjnapiork@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2019 by </AUTHOR> as listed above.

LICENSE

This library is free software and may be distributed under the same terms as perl itself.