Binary data-structure serialization

[Eric Poggel]

On 6/7/2010 7:37 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2010-06-06 21:32, Eric Poggel wrote:
>> On 6/1/2010 5:31 PM, Robert M. Münch wrote:
>>> On 2010-06-01 02:13:18 +0200, Eric Poggel said:
>>>
>>>> After having difficulty getting ddbg to work, I decided to write a
>>>> dump function so I could easily see my data structures at runtime. The
>>>> biggest part of it is a json encoder which can handle most D
>>>> structures. If I recall, it only has trouble with enum's and pointers
>>>> (since there's no length info).
>>>>
>>>> It's available in Yage's source here
>>>> (http://dsource.org/projects/yage/browser/trunk/src/yage/core/json.d)
>>>> Yage is licensed LGPL but I grant permission to use this under the
>>>> Boost 1.0 license if you or anyone else needs it.
>>>
>>> Thanks for this. I will take a look.
>>>
>>>> However, for now it's only one-way and there's no deserialization part
>>>> to it.
>>>
>>> Well, this part is left for the reader as an exercise ;-).
>>>
>>
>> It seems it also doesn't serialize members of parent classes, which can
>> be a major caveat. I took a look at it yesterday but unfortunately
>> wasn't able to figure it out.
>
> You can have a look at my serialization library:
> http://dsource.org/projects/orange/ it could use some testing.
>
> * It handles both serializing and deserializing
> * It automatically serializes the base classes
> * It supports events (before and after (de)serializing)
> * It supports non-serialized fields (you can say that some fields in a
> class should not be serialized)
> * It's licensed under the Boost license
> * It's fairly std/runtime library independent (hopefully it's only the
> XMLArchive that is dependent on the runtime library, I've only tested it
> with Tango)
> * You can create new archive types and use them with the existing
> serializer
>
> * It currently only supports XML as the archive type but the library is
> built so you can create new archive types and use them with the existing
> serializer
> * If you want to serialize objects through base class references you
> need to register a serialize function, everything else should be handled
> automatically
>
> You can have a look at an example of usage at the project site.
>

Thanks.  This looks pretty nice!