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/**
  * The MIT License (MIT)
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Andrew Snare, Age Mooij
  *
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package gh
import spray.json._

/**
  * A custom version of the Spray DefaultJsonProtocol with a modified field naming strategy
  */
trait SnakifiedSprayJsonSupport extends DefaultJsonProtocol {
  import reflect._

  /**
    * This is the most important piece of code in this object!
    * It overrides the default naming scheme used by spray-json and replaces it with a scheme that turns camelcased
    * names into snakified names (i.e. using underscores as word separators).
    */
  override protected def extractFieldNames(classTag: ClassTag[_]) = {
    import java.util.Locale

    def snakify(name: String) = {
      val pass1 = """([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])""".r.replaceAllIn(name, "$1_$2")
      val pass2 = """([a-z\d])([A-Z])""".r.replaceAllIn(pass1, "$1_$2")

      pass2.toLowerCase(Locale.US)
    }

    super.extractFieldNames(classTag).map{ snakify(_) }
  }
}

object SnakifiedSprayJsonSupport extends SnakifiedSprayJsonSupport