On 2011-08-07 21:28, dsimcha wrote:
In addition to the bug reports I filed, why is it necessary to write any serialization code to serialize through the base class? What's wrong with just doing something like:class Base {} class Derived : Base {} void main() { auto serializer = new Serializer(new XMLArchive!()); // Introspect Derived and figure out all the details automatically. serializer.register!(Derived); }
I've been thinking about this and currently I don't see how this would be possible. When serializing through a base class reference the static type would be of the base class. But what I need is the static type of the subclass, to be able to loop through the tuple returned by tupleof. The only information I can get about the subclass is basically the fully qualified name.
What I would need is some kind of associative array that maps strings to types, but as far as I know that's not possible, specially since the strings would be runtime values.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
