std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-08-24 14:45, ilya-stromberg wrote:

> Great job!
> A little question. For example, I would like to load data from previos
> format and store current version in default std.serialization format.
> So, I don't want to implement "toData" at all? Is it possible? Or can I
> call the default serialization method? Something like this:
>
> class Foo : Serializable
> {
>      long b;
>
>      //I don't want to implement this
>      void toData (Serializer serializer, Serializer.Data key)
>      {
>          serializer.serialize(this);
>      }
>
>      void fromData (Serializer serializer, Serializer.Data key)
>      {
>          b = serializer.deserialize!(int)("b");
>      }
> }

I actually noticed this problem when I wrote the example. First, the 
interface Serializable is actually not necessary because this is 
actually checked with at template at compile time, it's possible to use 
these methods for structs as well. Second, instead of checking for both 
"toData" and "fromData" when serializing and deserializing it should 
only check for "toData" when serializing and only for "fromData" when 
deserializing.

I'll add this to my todo list.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg