To Json

toJson is a utility function that converts a value to a valid json object/array (not a string).

This function is heavily used internally in warlock to parse the response body before sending it to the client.

But you may have some situations where you want to get the output value of certain class i.e CategoryOutput.

Usage

Just call the function and pass to it any object/array, it will recursively convert it to a valid json object/array.

src/app/main.ts

import { toJson } from "@warlock.js/core";
import { CategoryOutput } from "app/categories/output/category-output";
import { UserOutput } from "app/users/output/user-output";

const category = new CategoryOutput({
  id: 1,
  name: "Category 1",
  children: [
    {
      id: 2,
      name: "Category 2",
    },
  ],
  createdBy: new UserOutput({
    id: 1,
    name: "John Doe",
  }),
});

async function main() {
  console.log(await toJson(category));
}

main();

This returns:

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Category 1",
  "children": [
    {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "Category 2"
    }
  ],
  "createdBy": {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "John Doe"
  }
}

note

Please note that this is async function, so you need to await it.