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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def to_json(self, value):
 """Subclasses should override this method for JSON encoding."""

        if not self.is_valid(value):
            raise ex.SerializeException('Invalid value: {}'.format(value))
        return value