Support for standard containers¶
The serialization and deserialization of containers is handled as follows:
std::map<std::string, ...>
, std::unordered_map<std::string, ...>
,
maps with any numeric types (integral and floating points) as keys,
and any objects where the ReflectionType
is either a std::string
or
a numeric type are treated as objects.
Consider the following map:
std::map<std::string, std::string> homer;
homer["firstName"] = "Homer";
homer["lastName"] = "Simpson";
This will be represented as follows:
{"firstName":"Homer","lastName":"Simpson"}
The same is true for numeric types:
std::map<int, std::string> homer;
homer[1] = "Homer";
homer[2] = "Simpson";
This will be represented as follows:
{"1":"Homer","2":"Simpson"}
If you wrap your keys into a rfl::Validator
, this will be treated as an object as well:
using Between1and3 = rfl::Validator<int, rfl::Minimum<1>, rfl::Maximum<3>>;
std::map<Between1and3, std::string> homer;
homer[1] = "Homer";
homer[2] = "Simpson";
This will also be represented as follows:
{"1":"Homer","2":"Simpson"}
All other supported standard containers
(other than std::variant
, std::optional
, std::unique_ptr
and std::shared_ptr
)
will be represented as arrays. Containers for which the value_type
is a key-value-pair will be represented as arrays of pairs.