Chances of D getting proper runtime reflection?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-24 10:10, Marco Leise wrote:
> Then I'll clearly use Orange when I have a need for serialization. Nice
> work!

Thanks.

> I've taken a closer look at
> http://dsource.org/projects/orange/wiki/Features and I see that
> versioning is still missing. What are your plans there? What happens at
> the moment when I deserialize and object with missing/added fields?

I actually haven't tested that with the new implementation. The idea is 
to have a callback that is called when a field is missing, or something 
else goes wrong. Then you can handle it however you want, throw an 
exception, do nothing or something else. The default callback will throw 
an exception.

You can manually implement versioning by adding a new field to a class, 
an integer, string or similar, containing a version number. Then you can 
implement the two methods "toData" and "fromData". When deserializing 
you being with deserializing the field containing the version and then 
you can do whatever you want depending on the version number.

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/Jacob Carlborg