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This `struct` provides a namespace for enumerating the formatting styles that can be used for writing a JSON document. See `Enum` in the TYPES sub‐section for details.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdljsn_writestyle.h>`

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struct WriteStyle;
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== Description

This class: * supports a complete set of _enumeration_ operations

* except for `bdex` serialization * is `const` _thread‐safe_ For terminology see `bsldoc_glossary`.

== Enums

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdljsn/WriteStyle/Enum.adoc[`Enum`] 
| Formatting styles for writing JSON text.
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== Static Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdljsn/WriteStyle/print.adoc[`print`] 
| Write the string representation of the specified enumeration `value` to the specified output `stream`, and return a reference to `stream`. Optionally specify an initial indentation `level`, whose absolute value is incremented recursively for nested objects. If `level` is specified, optionally specify `spacesPerLevel`, whose absolute value indicates the number of spaces per indentation level for this and all of its nested objects. If `level` is negative, suppress indentation of the first line. If `spacesPerLevel` is negative, format the entire output on one line, suppressing all but the initial indentation (as governed by `level`). See `toAscii` for what constitutes the string representation of a `WriteStyle::Enum` value.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdljsn/WriteStyle/toAscii.adoc[`toAscii`] 
| Return the non‐modifiable string representation corresponding to the specified enumeration `value`, if it exists, and a unique (error) string otherwise. The string representation of `value` matches its corresponding enumerator name with the "e_" prefix elided. For example: ` bsl::cout << WriteStyle::toAscii(WriteStyle::e_PRETTY); ` will print the following on standard output: ` PRETTY ` Note that specifying a `value` that does not match any of the enumerators will result in a string representation that is distinct from any of those corresponding to the enumerators, but is otherwise unspecified.
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