Deserializing const fields

[Jacob Carlborg]

I hit an interesting problem in my serialization library: deserializing 
const (and immutable) fields. The problem is that const fields need to 
be set in a constructor.

In my current implementation I don't call the constructor at all. The 
reason for this is that I want to be able to (de)serialize classes 
without a default constructor. Instead it's possible to register event 
handlers for when a class is deserialized.

So I think that I either need to require that a class with const fields 
need to have a default constructor or a constructor that takes the 
serializer as an argument and leave the class to manually deserialize 
the const fields in the constructor.

Anyone got any other ideas?

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/Jacob Carlborg