From 59b10b725ca00d7732d19667e955285b19ec90e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Uwe L. Korn" <uwelk@xhochy.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:20:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add JSON serialization wrapper

---
 src/libtomahawk/utils/TomahawkUtils.cpp | 14 ++++++++++++++
 src/libtomahawk/utils/TomahawkUtils.h   |  1 +
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libtomahawk/utils/TomahawkUtils.cpp b/src/libtomahawk/utils/TomahawkUtils.cpp
index 24595e229..4c6b735c9 100644
--- a/src/libtomahawk/utils/TomahawkUtils.cpp
+++ b/src/libtomahawk/utils/TomahawkUtils.cpp
@@ -861,6 +861,20 @@ parseJson( const QByteArray& jsonData, bool* ok )
 }
 
 
+QByteArray
+toJson( const QVariant &variant, bool* ok )
+{
+#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK( 5, 0, 0 )
+    QJsonDocument doc = QJsonDocument::fromVariant( variant );
+    *ok = true;
+    return doc.toJson();
+#else
+    QJson::Serializer serializer;
+    return serializer.serialize( variant, ok );
+#endif
+}
+
+
 void
 urlAddQueryItem( QUrl& url, const QString& key, const QString& value )
 {
diff --git a/src/libtomahawk/utils/TomahawkUtils.h b/src/libtomahawk/utils/TomahawkUtils.h
index c85749a34..9962cdad7 100644
--- a/src/libtomahawk/utils/TomahawkUtils.h
+++ b/src/libtomahawk/utils/TomahawkUtils.h
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ namespace TomahawkUtils
 
     /* QJson */
     DLLEXPORT QVariant parseJson( const QByteArray& jsonData, bool* ok = 0 );
+    DLLEXPORT QByteArray toJson( const QVariant &variant, bool* ok = 0 );
 
     /* QUrl */
     DLLEXPORT void urlAddQueryItem( QUrl& url, const QString& key, const QString& value );