From 5d0d491659e23ce546f2035a171314acc973a3b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Cameron <chris.cameron@wedoresi.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 16:47:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Shim for JSON formatting a serializable instance

---
 ICD.Common.Utils/Json/JsonUtils.cs | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/JsonUtils.cs b/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/JsonUtils.cs
index 8bb7a9c..6449cd7 100644
--- a/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/JsonUtils.cs
+++ b/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/JsonUtils.cs
@@ -107,9 +107,21 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Json
 		/// <param name="value"></param>
 		[PublicAPI]
 		public static void Print(object value)
+		{
+			string formatted = Format(value);
+			IcdConsole.PrintLine(formatted);
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Serializes the given item and formats the JSON into a human-readable form.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="value"></param>
+		/// <returns></returns>
+		[PublicAPI]
+		public static string Format(object value)
 		{
 			string serial = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(value);
-			Print(serial);
+			return Format(serial);
 		}
 
 		/// <summary>