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happy to discuss design of this
this is one of the best features of protocol buffers, allowing one to be forward and backward compatible with schema changes.
Eg:
struct Dataset{int age; int height;}
Dataset(13).pack.writeToFile("dataset.mpck");
// later on, Dataset is updated but we still want to use the saved data
struct Dataset{int age; string address = "bar";}
auto dataset="dataset.mpck".read.unpack!Dataset;
// currently, error: incompatible type
- NOTE: error is actually uninformative, it should also show which fields are wrong
// desired behavior:
struct MsgpackOption{
bool allow_missing_fields=false;
bool allow_added_fields=false;
}
MsgpackOption opt={allow_missing_fields:true, allow_added_fields:true};
auto dataset="dataset.mpck".read.unpack!Dataset(opt);
assert(dataset==Dataset(13, "bar"));
- NOTE: should also work with reordered fields (eg:
struct Dataset{int height;int age; }, possibly modulo an optionbool allow_reordered_fields
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