The JSON protocol is a de facto standard used in many different environments to transport objects, included arrays and Dates plus primitives such: strings, numbers, and booleans ... so far, so good! Since this protocol is widely adopted but it has not the power that a well known function as is the PHP serialize one has, we are often forced to remember how data has been stored, what does this data represent, and eventually convert data back if we are dealing with instances rather than native hashes. If we consider the ExtJS library architecture, we can basically have a snapshot of whatever component simply storing its configuration object. The type will eventually tell us how to retrieve a copy of the original component back and without effort at all. Since JSON is the preferred protocol to store data in WebStorages, databases, files, etc etc, and since we can save basically only hashes, loosing every other property, I have decided to try this experiment able to bring some magic in the...
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