Easy JSON serialization for data-container classes

JSONObjects.cs

#region Using Directives
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

using Newtonsoft.Json;

using UnityEngine;
#endregion



/// <summary>
/// Contract of a data object convertible to JSON data
/// </summary>
public interface IJSONObject
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Converts the IJSONObject instance to formatted JSON string
	/// </summary>
	/// <returns>Object in JSON string form</returns>
	string ToJSONString ();
};



/// <summary>
/// Interface of an object convertible to/from JSON data
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">Concrete type of data</typeparam>
public interface IJSONObject<T>: 
	IJSONObject where T : class, IJSONObject
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Creates copy of the object with the same field values
	/// </summary>
	/// <typeparam name="T">Type of IJSONObject class</typeparam>
	/// <returns>A .NET object instance</returns>
	T MakeCopy () ;
};



/// <summary>
/// Abstract base class of JSON convertible types
/// which represent game data
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">
/// Concrete type of an IJSONObject
/// </typeparam>
[Serializable] public abstract class JSONObjectBase<T> : 
	IJSONObject<T> where T: class, IJSONObject
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Serializes object to JSON data string
	/// </summary>
	/// <returns>JSON data string</returns>
	public virtual string ToJSONString () =>
		JsonConvert.SerializeObject ( this );

	/// <summary>
	/// Creates a clone/copy with same field values
	/// </summary>
	/// <returns>Copy of this instance</returns>
	public virtual T MakeCopy ( )
		=> (T) this.MemberwiseClone ();

	/// <summary>
	/// Creates an C# object from a JSON data string
	/// </summary>
	/// <param name="data">JSON data in string form</param>
	/// <returns>A C# object created from JSON data</returns>
	public static T CreateFromJSONData ( string data ) =>
		JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T> ( data );
}