Serialization for D. Comments, please!

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2009 13:29:39 +0400, Qian Xu <quian.xu at stud.tu-ilmenau.de>
> wrote:
>
>> BCS wrote:
>>
>>> I'm planning on taking a crack at a Serialization template library and
>>> I'm
>>> looking for feed back. My thinking so far is up on my blog here:
>>>
>>>
>>
>> http://arrayboundserror.blogspot.com/2009/05/serialization-for-d-part-1-of-n.html
>>>
>>> Please comment! (here or there, doesn't matter, I think I'll see both)
>>
>> A question:
>> Should every object contain "mixin Serializable!()" in its declaration?
>> It is easy to add this in own classes, but not easy to 3rd-party
>> libraries.
>> for instance: tango
>>
>>
>> --Qian
>>
>
> Good serialization library supports external serialization via template
> specialization (or similar tricks) :)

I'll also add that you should be able to properly
serialize/deserialize a BaseClass pointer that actually points to a
DerivedClass.
This is pretty tricky to get working seamlessly when combined with the
external serialization requirement.
H3r3tic's xpose library has this working IIRC.

--bb