Use JSON for serializing the graph about nodeeditor HOT 6 CLOSED

Actually, the solution is simple: Qt's JSON code supports text-based and binary JSON files. You can check it out in the Qt example.

    QJsonDocument saveDoc(gameObject);
    saveFile.write(saveFormat == Json
        ? saveDoc.toJson()
        : saveDoc.toBinaryData());

I want to get rid of my hand-made binary serialization and go for JSON in whatever form the user wants.

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Best solution would be to support both and let the user decide.

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Maybe you could abstract the serialization away so that the user can specify a custom serialization, with QJson as default serializer. This way everybody could plugin the serialization format they want.

If you need any help with this, let me know.

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Writing the abstracted serialization code is way not trivial. The serialization itself is a complex problem, thus, it is hard to foresee what a client's serialization implementation could look like. For not just the Json serialization is implemented (in its simplest form, without versioning).

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Is this completed? It seems that is is...

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Well, I made some sort of serializaiton to JSON, there is a way to construct JSON on-the-fly from your data structure and pass to deserialization.

But this is not an "abstracted serialization" -- it would be complicated and I did not go this way

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