Serialization

(in ./Carbon/Serialization/_.lua)

Provides serialization facilities for Carbon. Relies on Metadata being enabled.


Methods

class public Serialization.Deserialize(string source, [Format format])

Returns any

  • required source: The serialized data in the form of a string.
  • optional format: The format to use; autodetected if not specified.

Deserializes a serialized object.

If no deserializer for the format could be found, returns (false, NotImplementedException)


class public Serialization.Serialize(any object, Format format)

Returns string

  • required object: The object to serialize.
  • required format: The Format to serialize the object into.

Serializes an object into the specified data format.


Properties

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