From d564a0a423d9462aeee9493260ee95c47e121140 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Cameron <chris.cameron@wedoresi.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:21:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Adding shorthand method for serializing an object into
 a JSON message

---
 ICD.Common.Utils/Json/JsonUtils.cs | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/JsonUtils.cs b/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/JsonUtils.cs
index 059d631..870bc56 100644
--- a/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/JsonUtils.cs
+++ b/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/JsonUtils.cs
@@ -187,6 +187,22 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Json
 			}
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Serializes to json, wrapping the object with a message property to differentiate between messages.
+		/// E.g.
+		/// { a = 1 }
+		/// Becomes
+		/// { m = "Test", d = { a = 1 } }
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="value"></param>
+		/// <param name="messageName"></param>
+		/// <returns></returns>
+		[PublicAPI]
+		public static string SerializeMessage(object value, string messageName)
+		{
+			return SerializeMessage(w => new JsonSerializer().Serialize(w, value), messageName);
+		}
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Serializes to json, wrapping the object with a message property to differentiate between messages.
 		/// E.g.