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package org.apache.tapestry5.json;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * A way of including some text (often, text that violates the normal JSON specification) as part of a JSON object or
 * array. This is used in a few places where data is nominally JSON but actually includes some non-conformant elements,
 * such as an inline function definition.
 * 
 * @since 5.1.0.2
 */
public class JSONLiteral implements JSONString, Serializable
{
    private final String text;

    public JSONLiteral(String text)
    {
        this.text = text;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the text property; this is also the value placed into the JSON string (unquoted, exactly as is).
     * 
     * @return the text
     */
    @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        return text;
    }

    @Override
    public String toJSONString()
    {
        return text;
    }
}