Object.factory

[Max Samukha]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:42:30 -0400, DanO
<dsstruthers at nospamplease.yahoo.com> wrote:

>BCS Wrote:
>
>> pickling?
>> 
>> MyTreeType BuildTree(char[] name)
>> {
>>    auto parseTree = parse(std.file.read(name));
>> 
>>    auto ret = cast(MyTreeType)Object.create(parseTree.type);
>>    ret.Stuff(parseTree.data)
>> 
>>    return ret;
>> }
>> 
>> 
>
>Yes, pickling it is.  I call it serialization, but having just started learning Python, pickling works, too.  As I stated earlier, standard objects work just fine when using Object.factory() or ClassInfo.find().create().  It's template  classes that are the issue.  Either method returns null.  I think it has something to do with the ClassInfo.name for the templated class.
>
>class MyDict(T) : ISerial
>{
>    T[char[]] dict;
>    void load(InStream s);
>    void save(OutStream s);
>}
>
>MyDict!(int).classinfo.name == "MyDict!(int).MyDict"; // Why the extra .MyDict appended to the end??
>
>=DanO
>
I guess the reason for the naming is that

class MyDict(T)
{
}

is a shorthand for

template MyDict(T)
{
  class MyDict
  {
  }
}