On 8 aug 2010, at 07:47, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > I think that would be great. Knowing nothing about Orange, I visited the > website and read the feature lists and the tutorial (the reference seems to > be missing for now). The latter contains: > > auto a2 = serializer.deserialize!(A)(data); > > which seems to require compile-time knowledge of the deserialized type. I'd > expect the library to support something like > > Object a2 = serializer.deserialize!Object(data);
This is currently not possible in the library. I'm not sure if that would be possible, how would you deserialize a struct for example? There is no factory function for structs like there is for classes. Since all the static types of the objects would be Object how would I set the values when deserializing? Or would Variant be useful here? I have not used Variant. Also due to issue 2844 (and one about getMembers returns any empty array, can't find it right now) I don't think this is currently possible. > and fill the object with an A. I'm pretty certain you've done that, it would > be great to feature that within the tutorials and documentation. I'd also > expect Variant to play a role there, e.g. you deserialize something and you > get a Variant. > > Andrei > > On 08/07/2010 10:19 AM, Jacob wrote: >> Is there any interest in having a serializer in Phobos? I have a serializer >> compatible with D2 which I licensed under the Boost license. This is the >> description from the project page: >> >> Orange is a serialization library for D1 and D2, supporting both Tango and >> Phobos. It can serialize most of the available types in D, including third >> party types and can serialize through base class references. It supports >> fully automatic serialization of all supported types and also supports >> several ways to customize the serialization. Orange has a separate front end >> (the serializer) and back end (the archive) making it possible for the user >> to create new archive types that can be used with the existing serializer. >> >> It's not very well tested but if there's some interest I'm hoping on getting >> more people to test the library. The project page is: >> http://dsource.org/projects/orange/ >> >> /Jacob Carlborg >> _______________________________________________ >> phobos mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
