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+# Copyright 2018 The glTF-Blender-IO authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import json
+import bpy
+
+
+class BlenderJSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
+    """Blender JSON Encoder."""
+
+    def default(self, obj):
+        if isinstance(obj, bpy.types.ID):
+            return dict(
+                name=obj.name,
+                type=obj.__class__.__name__
+            )
+        return super(BlenderJSONEncoder, self).default(obj)
+
+
+def is_json_convertible(data):
+    """Test, if a data set can be expressed as JSON."""
+    try:
+        json.dumps(data, cls=BlenderJSONEncoder)
+        return True
+    except:
+        return False
+