std.serialization

[Atila Neves]

On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 07:24:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg

Yeah, I still have to implement that for cerealed.

Atila