Working on new binary serialization module for phobos (hopefully)

[Basile Burg via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 12:52:45 UTC, Sean Campbell wrote:
> I've been working on a new serialization module for Phobos and 
> its only reliant on 4 Phobos modules
> it is available at 
> https://github.com/sycam0inc/phobos/blob/master/std/experimental/serialization.d
>
> I would like some feedback on it

We are many on this segment. Your one is "under-featured". One 
thing i need in serialization is the use of prop getter to 
serialize and prop setter to deserialize (*) and not only a dump 
of the fields that __traits() can find.

That's why i also done mine:

https://github.com/BBasile/iz/blob/master/import/iz/serializer.d

based on the concept of property descriptor, UDA anotations:

https://github.com/BBasile/iz/blob/master/import/iz/properties.d

However still not happy with it...
Maybe with every other examples that people gave you, you'll get 
a better idea of how to design the thing.

One plus is that your code is very clean.
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(*): an obvious reason is that when you change a piece in an 
engine you don't just drop it under the hood and it's done. You 
have to demount and remount a lot of pieces...that's what the 
setters do silently.