std.serialization

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 06:09:35 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:

> A base class reference is: from your example an A which 
> actually contains a
> C or B.
>
> Honestly I haven't tried this I would have assumed that D still 
> gives you
> the real type when using reflection but have you tried it?

Unfortunately the only why to get a value of field by reflection 
requires the static type to be known. When serializing through a 
base class reference the static type is lost. Therefore it's 
required to register the subclass, one way or another.

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/Jacob Carlborg