2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/it.class b/it.class
index f514537..e0916c3 100644
--- a/it.class
+++ b/it.class
@@ -1006,5 +1006,21 @@ static function pipe($cmd, $args = array())
 	return new it_pipe(is_string($cmd) ? array('cmd' => $cmd, 'args' => $args) : array('data' => $cmd));
 }
 
+/**
+ * Encodes data to json with unescaped slahes, unescape unicode and on devel pretty printing
+ */
+static function json_encode($data)
+{
+	return json_encode($data, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE | (it::is_devel() ? JSON_PRETTY_PRINT : 0));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Decodes json data and provides warning if failed
+ */
+static function json_decode($json)
+{
+	return ($data = json_decode($json)) === null && $json != 'null' ? it::error(array('title' => "invalid json", 'body' => $json)) : $data;
+}
+
 }
 ?>
diff --git a/tests/it.t b/tests/it.t
index 4cf61c1..673b2d7 100755
--- a/tests/it.t
+++ b/tests/it.t
@@ -389,3 +389,6 @@ is(it::any2utf8("a💚b"), "a💚b", "it::any2utf8 correctly handles 4-byte utf-
 is(it::any2utf8(array("foo", utf8_decode("bär"))), array("foo", "bär"), "any2utf8 on arrays");
 is(it::any2utf8(array("foo", array(utf8_decode("bär")))), array("foo", array("bär")), "any2utf8 on recursive arrays");
 is(it::any2utf8(array(1, true, false, null)), array(1, true, false, null), "any2utf8 should leave types alone");
+
+foreach (array($dummy, false, true, null, 1, "a", "Ä", "/", array()) as $var)
+	is(it::json_decode(it::json_encode($var)), $var);