Json.gobject_to_data
Description: Reference for Json.gobject_to_data

### Function

# Jsongobject_to_data

since: 0.10

#### Declaration [src]

    gchar*
    json_gobject_to_data (
      GObject* gobject,
      gsize* length
    )

#### Description [src]

Serializes a `GObject` instance into a JSON data stream, iterating recursively over each property.

If the given object implements the `JsonSerializable` interface, it will be asked to serialize all its properties; otherwise, the default implementation will be use to translate the compatible types into JSON native types.

Available since: 0.10

#### Parameters

`gobject`

  Type: `GObject`

  The object to serialize.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.

`length`

  Type: `gsize*`

  Return value for the length of the buffer.

  The argument will be set by the function.
  The argument can be `NULL`.

#### Return value

Type: `gchar*`

A JSON data stream representing the given object.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.