Transaction: Added toObject method and changed toJSON to return a string

lib/transaction/input/input.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ var _ = require('lodash');
 var BufferWriter = require('../../encoding/bufferwriter');
 var buffer = require('buffer');
 var bufferUtil = require('../../util/buffer');
-var jsUtil = require('../../util/js');
+var JSUtil = require('../../util/js');
 var Script = require('../../script');
 
 function Input(params) {
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Object.defineProperty(Input.prototype, 'script', {
 });
 
 Input.prototype._fromObject = function(params) {
-  if (_.isString(params.prevTxId) && jsUtil.isHexa(params.prevTxId)) {
+  if (_.isString(params.prevTxId) && JSUtil.isHexa(params.prevTxId)) {
     params.prevTxId = new buffer.Buffer(params.prevTxId, 'hex');
   }
   this.prevTxId = params.prevTxId;
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Input.prototype._fromObject = function(params) {
   return this;
 };
 
-Input.prototype.toJSON = function() {
+Input.prototype.toObject = function toObject() {
   return {
     prevTxId: this.prevTxId,
     outputIndex: this.outputIndex,
@@ -49,7 +49,14 @@ Input.prototype.toJSON = function() {
   };
 };
 
+Input.prototype.toJSON = function toJSON() {
+  return JSON.stringify(this.toObject());
+};
+
 Input.fromJSON = function(json) {
+  if (JSUtil.isValidJSON(json)) {
+    json = JSON.parse(json);
+  }
   return new Input({
     prevTxId: json.prevTxId || json.txidbuf,
     outputIndex: json.outputIndex || json.txoutnum,

lib/transaction/output.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ var _ = require('lodash');
 var BN = require('../crypto/bn');
 var buffer = require('buffer');
 var bufferUtil = require('../util/buffer');
+var JSUtil = require('../util/js');
 var BufferWriter = require('../encoding/bufferwriter');
 var Script = require('../script');
 
@@ -53,14 +54,21 @@ Output.prototype._fromObject = function(param) {
   return this;
 };
 
-Output.prototype.toJSON = function() {
+Output.prototype.toObject = function toObject() {
   return {
     satoshis: this.satoshis,
     script: this._scriptBuffer.toString('hex')
   };
 };
 
+Output.prototype.toJSON = function toJSON() {
+  return JSON.stringify(this.toObject());
+};
+
 Output.fromJSON = function(json) {
+  if (JSUtil.isValidJSON(json)) {
+    json = JSON.parse(json);
+  }
   return new Output({
     satoshis: json.satoshis || -(-json.valuebn),
     script: new Script(json.script)

lib/transaction/transaction.js

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ var assert = require('assert');
 
 var util = require('../util/js');
 var bufferUtil = require('../util/buffer');
+var JSUtil = require('../util/js');
 var BufferReader = require('../encoding/bufferreader');
 var BufferWriter = require('../encoding/bufferwriter');
 var Hash = require('../crypto/hash');
@@ -121,6 +122,9 @@ Transaction.prototype.fromBufferReader = function(reader) {
 };
 
 Transaction.prototype.fromJSON = function(json) {
+  if (JSUtil.isValidJSON(json)) {
+    json = JSON.parse(json);
+  }
   var self = this;
   this.inputs = [];
   var inputs = json.inputs || json.txins;
@@ -137,7 +141,7 @@ Transaction.prototype.fromJSON = function(json) {
   return this;
 };
 
-Transaction.prototype.toJSON = function() {
+Transaction.prototype.toObject = function toObject() {
   var inputs = [];
   this.inputs.forEach(function(input) {
     inputs.push(input.toJSON());
@@ -154,11 +158,12 @@ Transaction.prototype.toJSON = function() {
   };
 };
 
-Transaction.prototype.fromString = function(string) {
+Transaction.prototype.toJSON = function toJSON() {
-  this.fromBuffer(new buffer.Buffer(string, 'hex'));
+  return JSON.stringify(this.toObject());
 };
 
-Transaction.prototype.fromObject = function(object) {
+Transaction.prototype.fromString = function(string) {
+  this.fromBuffer(new buffer.Buffer(string, 'hex'));
 };
 
 Transaction.prototype._newTransaction = function() {