Beginning of json module

Cargo.toml

@@ -9,5 +9,6 @@ zbus = "4.4.0"
 zvariant = "4.2.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.40.0", features = ["full"] }
 futures-util = "0.3.30"
+serde = "1.0.210"
 serde_json = "1.0.128"
 # rson_rs = "0.2.1"

src/formats/json.rs

@@ -1,17 +1,54 @@
+// This module deals with converting the notification object into Json format, which might be useful for data exchange
 use crate::notification::Notification;
-use serde_json::{json, Value};
-
+use serde_json::{json, Value}; // json!() macro and Value type
 
 impl Notification {
-    // Json format, useful for data exchange
-    pub fn json(&self) {
-        // Actions
-        let actions: Value = if self.actions().is_empty() {
-            "None".into()
+    // Actions, as json
+    pub fn actions_json(&self) -> Value {
+        if self.actions().is_empty() {
+            json!({}) // Empty JSON object if no actions
         } else {
-            self.actions().into()
-        };
-        json!({"actions": actions})
+            serde_json::Value::Object(
+                // Wrap the map into a serde_json::Value
+                self.actions()
+                    .iter()
+                    .map(|(id, label)| {
+                        (id.clone(), json!(label)) // Create key-value pairs: id -> label
+                    })
+                    .collect::<serde_json::Map<_, _>>(), // Collect into a serde_json::Map
+            )
+        }
     }
 
+    // Hints, as json
+    pub fn hints_json(&self) -> Value {
+        if self.hints().is_empty() {
+            json!({}) // Empty JSON object if no hints
+        } else {
+            serde_json::Value::Object(
+                self.hints()
+                    .iter()
+                    .map(|(key, value)| {
+                        (key.clone(), json!(value.to_string())) // Convert hint value to string
+                    })
+                    .collect::<serde_json::Map<_, _>>(), // Collect into a serde_json::Map
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+    // The notification as a json object
+    pub fn json(&self) -> Value {
+        json!({
+            "app_name": &self.app_name(),
+            "replace_id": &self.replace_id(),
+            "icon": &self.icon(),
+            "summary": &self.summary(),
+            "body": &self.body(),
+            "actions": &self.actions_json(),
+            "hints": &self.hints_json(),
+            "expiration_timeout": self.expir_timeout(),
+            "urgency": self.urgency(),
+            "default_action": self.default_action().map(|actn| actn.0),
+        })
+    }
 }

src/formats/plain.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// This module helps get the notification object in a plain text format, which could be printed to the console or a file
 use crate::notification::Notification;
 
 impl Notification {

src/main.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pub mod formats {
-    pub mod plain;
     pub mod json;
+    pub mod plain;
 }
 mod notification;
 use notification::{to_notif, Notification};
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
                     let notif: Notification = to_notif(&msg_body)?;
                     // Handle the notif
                     println!("New notification!\n{}\n", &notif.plain()); // Print the plain version
+                    println!("JSON!\n{}\n", &notif.json()); // Print the plain version
                 }
                 "CloseNotification" => {
                     // Client sent a close signal. Extract notification ID of the notif to be closed from the message body

src/notification.rs

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+use serde::Serialize;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use zbus::{message::Body, Result};
 use zvariant::OwnedValue;
 
 // A notificaion object
+#[derive(Serialize)] // To help with json
 pub struct Notification {
     // The application that sent the notification
     app_name: String,