From 8e19d33343def826ae1ca81728b9dc9a089b6be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Micke Nordin <kano@sunet.se>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:47:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Serialize/deserialize to json

---
 src/nag_object.py | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 src/nagparse.py   |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/nag_object.py b/src/nag_object.py
index 36d1278..9e0c53f 100644
--- a/src/nag_object.py
+++ b/src/nag_object.py
@@ -74,6 +74,27 @@ class NagObject:
                 wrap(dir[1], ws_base).strip().strip('\\\n').strip())
         return string + '}\n'
 
+    def from_object(self, object: dict) -> None:
+        self.m_type.value = object['type']
+        self.m_config_file = object['config_file']
+        self.m_directives = object['directives']
+        self.m_line_no = object['line_number']
+
+    def to_object(self) -> dict:
+        object = {
+            'type': self.m_type.value,
+            'config_file': self.m_config_file,
+            'directives': self.m_directives,
+            'line_number': self.m_line_no
+        }
+        return object
+
+    def from_json(self, string: str) -> None:
+        self.from_object(json.loads(string))
+
+    def to_json(self) -> str:
+        return json.dumps(self.to_object)
+
     def get_type(self) -> NagObjectType:
         return self.m_type
 
diff --git a/src/nagparse.py b/src/nagparse.py
index 620b94f..874e3aa 100644
--- a/src/nagparse.py
+++ b/src/nagparse.py
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ class NagParse:
         for object in self.m_objects:
             string += str(object) + "\n"
         return string
+    def to_json(self):
+        return json.dumps([x.to_object() for x in self.m_objects])
 
     def parse_config(self,config_file: str) -> list[NagObject]:
         state = ParserState.DEFINE