From bb3d9e16e4c713a682d2cdc858430db705b1f635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen McQuay <stephen@mcquay.me>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:30:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] allow for overriding encodings

---
 main.go  | 1 +
 robot.go | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index cfb5a13..5a04e76 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ var botname = flag.String("name", "gobot", "the name that other players will see
 var botcount = flag.Int("bots", 1, "number of bots to spin up")
 
 var verbose = flag.Bool("verbose", false, "run verbosly")
+var forceJSON = flag.Bool("json", false, "force json encoding")
 
 func main() {
 	log.SetFlags(log.Ldate | log.Ltime | log.Lshortfile)
diff --git a/robot.go b/robot.go
index 16634a1..61c98dc 100644
--- a/robot.go
+++ b/robot.go
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ func (r *robot) negociate() (err error) {
 	}
 
 	supportedEncs := []string{"bson", "json", "gob"}
+	if *forceJSON {
+		supportedEncs = []string{"json"}
+	}
 	err = websocket.JSON.Send(r.ws, supportedEncs)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.New(fmt.Sprintf("failure: %+v", err))