Are there any simple direct serialization libraries where I can mark elements of a class or struct that I want serialized with an attribute and it will take care of all the rest(including recursive structures, arrays, etc) then deserialize back in to the structs?

I want something straight forward without allot of plumbing on my end.

On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 03:30:51 UTC, Joseph wrote:
> Are there any simple direct serialization libraries where I can mark elements of a class or struct that I want serialized with an attribute and it will take care of all the rest(including recursive structures, arrays, etc) then deserialize back in to the structs?
>
> I want something straight forward without allot of plumbing on my end.

Have you checked Cerealed ? From the looks of it, it supports a @NoCereal attribute which does the opposite of what you're looking for. Not sure how it handles nested structs, but there are examples in the test/directory : https://github.com/atilaneves/cerealed/

On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 03:30:51 UTC, Joseph wrote:
> Are there any simple direct serialization libraries...
> I want something straight forward without allot of plumbing on my end.

You may also take a look at https://github.com/sdegtiarev/persistentObject
This is small module for binary serialization.

On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 03:30:51 UTC, Joseph wrote:
> Are there any simple direct serialization libraries where I can mark elements of a class or struct that I want serialized with an attribute and it will take care of all the rest(including recursive structures, arrays, etc) then deserialize back in to the structs?
>
> I want something straight forward without allot of plumbing on my end.

https://github.com/huntlabs/common/blob/master/source/zhang2018/common/Serialize.d

only a single file .  can serialize/deserialize struct,class,array.

On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 03:30:51 UTC, Joseph wrote:
> Are there any simple direct serialization libraries where I can mark elements of a class or struct that I want serialized with an attribute and it will take care of all the rest(including recursive structures, arrays, etc) then deserialize back in to the structs?
>
> I want something straight forward without allot of plumbing on my end.

https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-d

is about as simple as it can get:

import std.file;
import msgpack;

struct S { int x; float y; string z; }

void main()
{
    S input = S(10, 25.5, "message");

    // serialize data
    ubyte[] inData = pack(input);

    // write data to a file
    write("file.dat", inData);

    // read data from a file
    ubyte[] outData = cast(ubyte[])read("file.dat");

    // unserialize the data
    S target = outData.unpack!S();

    // verify data is the same
    assert(target.x == input.x);
    assert(target.y == input.y);
    assert(target.z == input.z);
}

On Tuesday, 19 September 2017 at 06:32:52 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>> I want something straight forward without allot of plumbing on my end.
>
> https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-d

I can't unittest my 32-bit code:

$ MODEL=32 make -f posix.mak unittest
[...]
src/msgpack/packer.d(1139): Error: function core.stdc.stdlib.malloc (uint size) is not callable using argument types (ulong)

On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 13:15:54 UTC, Azi Hassan wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 03:30:51 UTC, Joseph wrote:
>> Are there any simple direct serialization libraries where I can mark elements of a class or struct that I want serialized with an attribute and it will take care of all the rest(including recursive structures, arrays, etc) then deserialize back in to the structs?
>>
>> I want something straight forward without allot of plumbing on my end.
>
> Have you checked Cerealed ? From the looks of it, it supports a @NoCereal attribute which does the opposite of what you're looking for. Not sure how it handles nested structs, but there are examples in the test/directory : https://github.com/atilaneves/cerealed/

Cerealed is definitely my favourite library out there for binary serialization. High quality.

You should use size_t instead of ulong, but on 32bit you would have still problem because you are trying assign 2^32 which is too big to hold in 32bit

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 11:42 PM, kdevel via Digitalmars-d-learn < digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 19 September 2017 at 06:32:52 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>
>> I want something straight forward without allot of plumbing on my end.
>>>
>>
>> https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-d
>>
>
> I can't unittest my 32-bit code:
>
> $ MODEL=32 make -f posix.mak unittest
> [...]
> src/msgpack/packer.d(1139): Error: function core.stdc.stdlib.malloc (uint
> size) is not callable using argument types (ulong)
>
>
>