[phobos] Interest in having a serializer in Phobos?

[Jacob]

I'm glad to see that there is some interest in this. Yes, most languages have support for serialization in the standard library, Ruby, .NET, Objective-C to mention a few more.

On 8 aug 2010, at 01:44, David Simcha wrote:

> Absolutely.  I'm not sure Orange is ready for prime time yet (not saying it isn't, just that I haven't tested/reviewed it yet) but IMHO serialization definitely belongs in the standard lib.  It's a relatively small (in the sense that a whole app would never be built around it; I'm not implying it's trivial), widely useful piece of functionality.  For such pieces of functionality having to go out and find and install a 3rd party library for even simple one-off use cases is a major hassle.  If you're writing a library, as opposed to an application, that needs serialization, using a third party serialization library is basically asking for dependency hell.  For these reasons pretty much any language that claims to be mature, modern and high level has serialization in the standard lib.  I know Java, PHP and Python do.
> 
> One specific use case of where I'd love a serialization lib in Phobos but would never use one if it were a 3rd party lib is my Plot2kill lib.  I'd love to use serialization for completely lossless saving of plots (i.e. you save a plot, you open it and can do everything you could before you saved it), but not enough to introduce a dependency to the project.
> 
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Jacob <doob at me.com> wrote:
> Is there any interest in having a serializer in Phobos? I have a serializer compatible with D2 which I licensed under the Boost license. This is the description from the project page:
> 
> Orange is a serialization library for D1 and D2, supporting both Tango and Phobos. It can serialize most of the available types in D, including third party types and can serialize through base class references. It supports fully automatic serialization of all supported types and also supports several ways to customize the serialization. Orange has a separate front end (the serializer) and back end (the archive) making it possible for the user to create new archive types that can be used with the existing serializer.
> 
> It's not very well tested but if there's some interest I'm hoping on getting more people to test the library. The project page is: http://dsource.org/projects/orange/
> 
> /Jacob Carlborg
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