On 2015-05-21 11:06, Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
Can I create an instance of A without calling a constructor? (see below)
Use case: for generic deserialiaztion, when the deserialization library
encounters a class without default constructor for example (it knows
what the fields should be set to, but doesn't know how to construct the
object).
class A{
int x=2;
this(int x){
this.x=x;
}
}
This came up here:
https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-d/issues/54#issuecomment-104136148
I provide some hacky solution for that in that thread but I suspect it's
not safe and something is missing.
Here's how I do it in my serialization library Orange [1]
[1]
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orange/blob/master/orange/util/Reflection.d#L166
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/Jacob Carlborg
