From dbe66bf805de4c0baec73979a8c80ea654fb323d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lonami Exo <totufals@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 11:55:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove TLObject.to_json

---
 readthedocs/misc/v2-migration-guide.rst |  8 ++++++++
 telethon/_misc/tlobject.py              | 17 -----------------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/readthedocs/misc/v2-migration-guide.rst b/readthedocs/misc/v2-migration-guide.rst
index 0b8bbc22..c328549c 100644
--- a/readthedocs/misc/v2-migration-guide.rst
+++ b/readthedocs/misc/v2-migration-guide.rst
@@ -589,6 +589,14 @@ broken for some time now (see `issue #1319 <https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Teleth
 anyway, so until there's a working solution, the mode is not supported. Pull Requests are welcome!
 
 
+The to_json method on objects has been removed
+----------------------------------------------
+
+This was not very useful, as most of the time, you'll probably be having other data along with the
+object's JSON. It simply saved you an import (and not even always, in case you wanted another
+encoder). Use ``json.dumps(obj.to_dict())`` instead.
+
+
 The Conversation API has been removed
 -------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/telethon/_misc/tlobject.py b/telethon/_misc/tlobject.py
index 4045e3ed..6b4bddf8 100644
--- a/telethon/_misc/tlobject.py
+++ b/telethon/_misc/tlobject.py
@@ -125,23 +125,6 @@ class TLObject:
 
         return res
 
-    def to_json(self, fp=None, default=_json_default, **kwargs):
-        """
-        Represent the current `TLObject` as JSON.
-
-        If ``fp`` is given, the JSON will be dumped to said
-        file pointer, otherwise a JSON string will be returned.
-
-        Note that bytes and datetimes cannot be represented
-        in JSON, so if those are found, they will be base64
-        encoded and ISO-formatted, respectively, by default.
-        """
-        d = self.to_dict()
-        if fp:
-            return json.dump(d, fp, default=default, **kwargs)
-        else:
-            return json.dumps(d, default=default, **kwargs)
-
     def __bytes__(self):
         try:
             return self._bytes()