From 058c999ba03fd06efe56d001130848ff22f047ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Tiger Chow <brian.holderchow@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:31:42 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] go-ipfs-config: fix(config): avoid clobbering user-provided
 key value pairs

let me know if this looks off @whyrusleeping @jbenet
---
 config/config.go | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index a0a79eeba..1230cd29b 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -219,3 +219,15 @@ func FromMap(v map[string]interface{}) (*Config, error) {
 	}
 	return &conf, nil
 }
+
+func ToMap(conf *Config) (map[string]interface{}, error) {
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	if err := json.NewEncoder(&buf).Encode(conf); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	var m map[string]interface{}
+	if err := json.NewDecoder(&buf).Decode(&m); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failure to decode config: %s", err)
+	}
+	return m, nil
+}