* Add pluggable JSON backends with support for the JSON gem. [rick]

    Example: ActiveSupport::JSON.backend = "JSONGem"

  All internal Rails JSON encoding is now handled by ActiveSupport::JSON.encode().  Use of #to_json is not recommended, as it may clash with other libraries that overwrite it.  However, you can recover Rails specific functionality
  if you really want to use #to_json.

    gem 'json'
    ActiveSupport::JSON.backend = "JSONGem"

    class ActiveRecord::Base
      alias to_json rails_to_json
    end

13 files changed, 42 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/date.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/date.rb
index cc84de1388..79c3957362 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/date.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/date.rb
@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ class Date
   #   # With ActiveSupport.use_standard_json_time_format = false
   #   Date.new(2005,2,1).to_json
   #   # => "2005/02/01"
-  def to_json(options = nil)
+  def rails_to_json(options = nil)
     if ActiveSupport.use_standard_json_time_format
       %("#{strftime("%Y-%m-%d")}")
     else
       %("#{strftime("%Y/%m/%d")}")
     end
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/date_time.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/date_time.rb
index 6c85824105..cdfc39b9f3 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/date_time.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/date_time.rb
@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ class DateTime
   #   # With ActiveSupport.use_standard_json_time_format = false
   #   DateTime.civil(2005,2,1,15,15,10).to_json
   #   # => "2005/02/01 15:15:10 +0000"
-  def to_json(options = nil)
+  def rails_to_json(options = nil)
     if ActiveSupport.use_standard_json_time_format
       xmlschema.inspect
     else
       strftime('"%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S %z"')
     end
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/enumerable.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/enumerable.rb
index 881b1d62c1..e1c3ec249d 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/enumerable.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/enumerable.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ module Enumerable
   #   # => users.to_json(:only => :name)
   #
   # will pass the <tt>:only => :name</tt> option to each user.
-  def to_json(options = {}) #:nodoc:
-    "[#{map { |value| ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(value, options) } * ', '}]"
+  def rails_to_json(options = {}) #:nodoc:
+    "[#{map { |value| ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(value, options) } * ','}]"
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/false_class.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/false_class.rb
index bf0844334b..a7657cca37 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/false_class.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/false_class.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 class FalseClass
-  def to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
+  def rails_to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
     'false'
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/hash.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/hash.rb
index d87b880743..19b97d7b8c 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/hash.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/hash.rb
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class Hash
   # would pass the <tt>:include => :posts</tt> option to <tt>users</tt>,
   # allowing the posts association in the User model to be converted to JSON
   # as well.
-  def to_json(options = {}) #:nodoc:
+  def rails_to_json(options = {}) #:nodoc:
     hash_keys = self.keys
 
     if except = options[:except]
@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ class Hash
 
     result = '{'
     result << hash_keys.map do |key|
-      "#{ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(key.to_s)}: #{ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(self[key], options)}"
-    end * ', '
+      "#{ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(key.to_s)}:#{ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(self[key], options)}"
+    end * ','
     result << '}'
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/nil_class.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/nil_class.rb
index 4763471ac4..b31e1dd249 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/nil_class.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/nil_class.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 class NilClass
-  def to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
+  def rails_to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
     'null'
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/numeric.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/numeric.rb
index 38713fb369..491b330c39 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/numeric.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/numeric.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 class Numeric
-  def to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
+  def rails_to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
     to_s
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/object.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/object.rb
index 0475967aee..d68f50562e 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/object.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/object.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ require 'active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables'
 
 class Object
   # Dumps object in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). See www.json.org for more info.
-  def to_json(options = {})
+  def rails_to_json(options = {})
     ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(instance_values, options)
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/regexp.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/regexp.rb
index b6116b70b5..63ccd7c490 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/regexp.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/regexp.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 class Regexp
-  def to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
+  def rails_to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
     inspect
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/string.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/string.rb
index 5ef797955a..27bef3b9cc 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/string.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/string.rb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ end
 ActiveSupport.escape_html_entities_in_json = true
 
 class String
-  def to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
+  def rails_to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
     json = '"' + gsub(ActiveSupport::JSON::Encoding.escape_regex) { |s|
       ActiveSupport::JSON::Encoding::ESCAPED_CHARS[s]
     }
@@ -33,4 +33,6 @@ class String
       s.unpack("U*").pack("n*").unpack("H*")[0].gsub(/.{4}/, '\\\\u\&')
     } + '"'
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/symbol.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/symbol.rb
index 485112f97c..6487bf8cb7 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/symbol.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/symbol.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 class Symbol
-  def to_json(options = {}) #:nodoc:
+  def rails_to_json(options = {}) #:nodoc:
     ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(to_s, options)
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/time.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/time.rb
index 7d97c38d77..2699672949 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/time.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/time.rb
@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ class Time
   #   # With ActiveSupport.use_standard_json_time_format = false
   #   Time.utc(2005,2,1,15,15,10).to_json
   #   # => "2005/02/01 15:15:10 +0000"
-  def to_json(options = nil)
+  def rails_to_json(options = nil)
     if ActiveSupport.use_standard_json_time_format
       xmlschema.inspect
     else
       %("#{strftime("%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")} #{formatted_offset(false)}")
     end
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/true_class.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/true_class.rb
index 037d812b3f..ac7c7d1e87 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/true_class.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/true_class.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 class TrueClass
-  def to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
+  def rails_to_json(options = nil) #:nodoc:
     'true'
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end