#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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"""An output module that saves data into a simple JSON format."""

from plaso.lib import output
from plaso.serializer import json_serializer


class Json(output.FileLogOutputFormatter):
  """Saves the events into a JSON format."""

  def EventBody(self, event_object):
    """Prints out to a filehandle string representation of an EventObject.

    Each event object contains both attributes that are considered "reserved"
    and others that aren't. The 'raw' representation of the object makes a
    distinction between these two types as well as extracting the format
    strings from the object.

    Args:
      event_object: The event object (instance of EventObject).
    """
    self.filehandle.WriteLine(
        json_serializer.JsonEventObjectSerializer.WriteSerialized(event_object))
    self.filehandle.WriteLine(u'\n')