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+/* This file is part of qjson
+  *
+  * Copyright (C) 2009 Flavio Castelli <flavio@castelli.name>
+  *
+  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+  * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+  * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+  *
+  * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+  * Library General Public License for more details.
+  *
+  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
+  * along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
+  * the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+  * Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+  */
+
+#ifndef QOBJECTHELPER_H
+#define QOBJECTHELPER_H
+
+#include "qjson_export.h"
+
+#include <QtCore/QLatin1String>
+#include <QtCore/QStringList>
+#include <QtCore/QVariantMap>
+
+class QObject;
+
+namespace QJson {
+  /**
+  * @brief Class used to convert QObject into QVariant and vivce-versa.
+  * During these operations only the class attributes defined as properties will
+  * be considered.
+  *
+  * Suppose the declaration of the Person class looks like this:
+  * \code
+  * class Person : public QObject
+    {
+      Q_OBJECT
+
+      Q_PROPERTY(QString name READ name WRITE setName)
+      Q_PROPERTY(int phoneNumber READ phoneNumber WRITE setPhoneNumber)
+      Q_PROPERTY(Gender gender READ gender WRITE setGender)
+      Q_PROPERTY(QDate dob READ dob WRITE setDob)
+      Q_ENUMS(Gender)
+
+     public:
+        Person(QObject* parent = 0);
+        ~Person();
+
+        QString name() const;
+        void setName(const QString& name);
+
+        int phoneNumber() const;
+        void setPhoneNumber(const int  phoneNumber);
+
+        enum Gender {Male, Female};
+        void setGender(Gender gender);
+        Gender gender() const;
+
+        QDate dob() const;
+        void setDob(const QDate& dob);
+
+      private:
+        QString m_name;
+        int m_phoneNumber;
+        Gender m_gender;
+        QDate m_dob;
+    };
+    \endcode
+
+    The following code will serialize an instance of Person to JSON :
+
+    \code
+    Person person;
+    person.setName("Flavio");
+    person.setPhoneNumber(123456);
+    person.setGender(Person::Male);
+    person.setDob(QDate(1982, 7, 12));
+
+    QVariantMap variant = QObjectHelper::qobject2qvariant(&person);
+    Serializer serializer;
+    qDebug() << serializer.serialize( variant);
+    \endcode
+
+    The generated output will be:
+    \code
+    { "dob" : "1982-07-12", "gender" : 0, "name" : "Flavio", "phoneNumber" : 123456 }
+    \endcode
+
+    It's also possible to initialize a QObject using the values stored inside of
+    a QVariantMap.
+
+    Suppose you have the following JSON data stored into a QString:
+    \code
+    { "dob" : "1982-07-12", "gender" : 0, "name" : "Flavio", "phoneNumber" : 123456 }
+    \endcode
+
+    The following code will initialize an already allocated instance of Person
+    using the JSON values:
+    \code
+    Parser parser;
+    QVariant variant = parser.parse(json);
+
+    Person person;
+    QObjectHelper::qvariant2qobject(variant.toMap(), &person);
+    \endcode
+
+    \sa Parser
+    \sa Serializer
+  */
+  class QJSON_EXPORT QObjectHelper {
+    public:
+      QObjectHelper();
+      ~QObjectHelper();
+      
+    /**
+    * This method converts a QObject instance into a QVariantMap.
+    *
+    * @param object The QObject instance to be converted.
+    * @param ignoredProperties Properties that won't be converted.
+    */
+    static QVariantMap qobject2qvariant( const QObject* object,
+                                  const QStringList& ignoredProperties = QStringList(QString(QLatin1String("objectName"))));
+
+    /**
+    * This method converts a QVariantMap instance into a QObject
+    *
+    * @param object The QObject instance to be converted.
+    */
+    static void qvariant2qobject(const QVariantMap& variant, QObject* object);
+
+    private:
+      Q_DISABLE_COPY(QObjectHelper)
+      class QObjectHelperPrivate;
+      QObjectHelperPrivate* const d;
+  };
+}
+
+#endif // QOBJECTHELPER_H