From ec1b84e7881977d7ec1fec7ecf00b45770f5d832 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lachlan Grose <lachlan.grose@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 09:27:47 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: adding loopjson encoder

---
 LoopStructural/utils/json_encoder.py | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 LoopStructural/utils/json_encoder.py

diff --git a/LoopStructural/utils/json_encoder.py b/LoopStructural/utils/json_encoder.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e6ce90cad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LoopStructural/utils/json_encoder.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import json
+class LoopJSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
+    def default(self, obj):
+        """All jsonable loop objects should have a tojson method
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        obj : LoopStructuralObject
+            An object from loopstructural
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        str
+            string representing the json encoding
+        """
+        return obj.__tojson__()
+        
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