From b70855d74f79c1c0e230652e979e0ea35f26adce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Fry <fry@processing.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:16:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] save methods for JSON objects and arrays

---
 core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java    | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 core/src/processing/data/JSONArray.java  | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 core/src/processing/data/JSONObject.java | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java b/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java
index d80a33c34..a5b4c939a 100644
--- a/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java
+++ b/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java
@@ -6109,12 +6109,33 @@ public class PApplet extends Applet
   }
 
 
+  public boolean saveJSONObject(JSONObject json, String filename) {
+    return saveJSONObject(json, filename);
+  }
+
+
+  public boolean saveJSONObject(JSONObject json, String filename, String options) {
+    return json.save(saveFile(filename), options);
+  }
+
+
   public JSONArray loadJSONArray(String filename) {
     JSONTokener tokener = new JSONTokener(createReader(filename));
     return new JSONArray(tokener);
   }
 
 
+  public boolean saveJSONArray(JSONArray json, String filename) {
+    return saveJSONArray(json, filename);
+  }
+
+
+  public boolean saveJSONArray(JSONArray json, String filename, String options) {
+    return json.save(saveFile(filename), options);
+  }
+
+
+
   /**
    * @webref input:files
    * @see Table
diff --git a/core/src/processing/data/JSONArray.java b/core/src/processing/data/JSONArray.java
index c195065e5..2ef5b9667 100644
--- a/core/src/processing/data/JSONArray.java
+++ b/core/src/processing/data/JSONArray.java
@@ -34,12 +34,17 @@ OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 SOFTWARE.
  */
 
+import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.lang.reflect.Array;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 
+import processing.core.PApplet;
+
 /**
  * A JSONArray is an ordered sequence of values. Its external text form is a
  * string wrapped in square brackets with commas separating the values. The
@@ -847,6 +852,22 @@ public class JSONArray {
 //  }
 
 
+  protected boolean save(OutputStream output) {
+    return save(PApplet.createWriter(output));
+  }
+
+
+  public boolean save(File file, String options) {
+    return save(PApplet.createWriter(file));
+  }
+
+
+  public boolean save(PrintWriter output) {
+    output.print(format(2));
+    output.flush();
+    return true;
+  }
+
 
   /**
    * Return the JSON data formatted with two spaces for indents.
diff --git a/core/src/processing/data/JSONObject.java b/core/src/processing/data/JSONObject.java
index b01074ded..464c3ea07 100644
--- a/core/src/processing/data/JSONObject.java
+++ b/core/src/processing/data/JSONObject.java
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 SOFTWARE.
  */
 
+import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
@@ -45,6 +48,8 @@ import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
+import processing.core.PApplet;
+
 /**
  * A JSONObject is an unordered collection of name/value pairs. Its external
  * form is a string wrapped in curly braces with colons between the names and
@@ -1414,6 +1419,23 @@ public class JSONObject {
 //  }
 
 
+  protected boolean save(OutputStream output) {
+    return save(PApplet.createWriter(output));
+  }
+
+
+  public boolean save(File file, String options) {
+    return save(PApplet.createWriter(file));
+  }
+
+
+  public boolean save(PrintWriter output) {
+    output.print(format(2));
+    output.flush();
+    return true;
+  }
+
+
   /**
    * Return the JSON data formatted with two spaces for indents.
    * Chosen to do this since it's the most common case (e.g. with println()).