using System.Text;
using JsonFx.Json;

namespace Extensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Wraps JsonFX.Json
    /// </summary>
    public static class Serializer
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// deserializes the object from a string
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
        /// <param name="data"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static T DeserializeString<T>(string data)
        {
            return JsonReader.Deserialize<T>(data);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// deserializes the object from a binary jsonstring
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
        /// <param name="data"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static T DeserializeBinary<T>(byte[] data)
        {
            var s = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data);
            return DeserializeString<T>(s);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// serializes the object into a json string
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="o"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static string SerializeString(object o)
        {
            return JsonWriter.Serialize(o);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// serializes the object into a json string and then into binary
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="o"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static byte[] SerializeBinary(object o)
        {
            var data = SerializeString(o);
            return StringToBinary(data);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// serializes the string and into binary
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="o"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static byte[] StringToBinary(string o)
        {
            return Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(o);
        }
    }
}