javascript instance method
Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.toJSON()
The toJSON() method of PlainDateTime instances returns a string representing this date-time in the same RFC 9557 format as calling toString(). It is intended to be implicitly called by stringify().
Syntax
toJSON()
Parameters
None.
Return value
A string representing the given date-time in the RFC 9557 format, with the calendar annotation included if it is not "iso8601".
Description
The toJSON() method is automatically called by stringify() when a Temporal.PlainDateTime object is stringified. This method is generally intended to, by default, usefully serialize Temporal.PlainDateTime objects during JSON serialization, which can then be deserialized using the Temporal.PlainDateTime.from() function as the reviver of parse().
Examples
Using toJSON()
const dt = Temporal.PlainDateTime.from({ year: 2021, month: 8, day: 1 });
const dtStr = dt.toJSON(); // '2021-08-01T00:00:00'
const dt2 = Temporal.PlainDateTime.from(dtStr);
JSON serialization and parsing
This example shows how Temporal.PlainDateTime can be serialized as JSON without extra effort, and how to parse it back.
const dt = Temporal.PlainDateTime.from({ year: 2021, month: 8, day: 1 });
const jsonStr = JSON.stringify({ nextBilling: dt }); // '{"nextBilling":"2021-08-01T00:00:00"}'
const obj = JSON.parse(jsonStr, (key, value) => {
if (key === "nextBilling") {
return Temporal.PlainDateTime.from(value);
}
return value;
});