std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-08-22 21:30, ilya-stromberg wrote:

> Great! What about more difficult cases? For example, we have:
>
> class Foo
> {
>     int a;
>     int b;
> }
>
> After changes we have new class:
>
> class Foo
> {
>     long b;
> }
>
> Can std.serialization load data to new class from old file? It should
> ignore "a" and convert "b" from int to long.

No it can't. It will throw an exception because it cannot find a "long" 
element:

Could not find an element "long" with the attribute "key" with the value "b"

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg