From 7a22815d744e30ff7cc44a92ea9de80e92b813be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Job Schipper <desjobster@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 21:44:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] made JSON serializing for import/export optional

---
 flexsearch.js | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flexsearch.js b/flexsearch.js
index f750a0b..aa7615f 100644
--- a/flexsearch.js
+++ b/flexsearch.js
@@ -2255,7 +2255,7 @@
              * @export
              */
 
-            FlexSearch.prototype.export = function(){
+            FlexSearch.prototype.export = function(serialize = true){
 
                 let payload;
 
@@ -2290,16 +2290,22 @@
                     ];
                 }
 
-                return JSON.stringify(payload);
+                if(serialize) {
+                    payload = JSON.stringify(payload);
+                }
+
+                return payload;
             };
 
             /**
              * @export
              */
 
-            FlexSearch.prototype.import = function(payload){
+            FlexSearch.prototype.import = function(payload, serialized = true){
 
-                payload = JSON.parse(payload);
+                if(serialized) {
+                    payload = JSON.parse(payload);
+                }
 
                 const ids = create_object();