Welcome to serialization
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This project is not being maintained.
Overview of existing functionality
Serialization currently provides unversioned, binary output of most of D's types, including classes and structs.
It can
- track class references and pointers by default
- serialize classes and structs through a templated 'describe' member function
- write derived classes from base class reference*
- read derived classes into base class reference*
- serialize not default constructible classes*
(* for this to work, the class needs to be registered with the archive type)
Even though it has less features than boost::serialization, to which it has similarities, it is already in a usable state.
What it does not do/is missing:
- exception safety / multithread safety
- out-of-class/struct serialization methods
- static arrays need to be serialized with describe_staticarray
- endian-awareness
Goals for the future are user-defined human readable formats (possibly by usage of a boost::spirit-like library) and versioning that makes sense.
Documentation
Is currently lacking. Check the unittests in serializer.d for a rough idea of how to use it.