The Unserializer
class is the complement to the Serializer
class. It parses
a serialization String
and creates objects from the contained data.
This class can be used in two ways:
- create a
new Unserializer()
instance with a given serialization String, then call itsunserialize()
method until all values are extracted - call
Unserializer.run()
to unserialize a single value from a given String
The specification of the serialization format can be found here: https://haxe.org/manual/serialization/format
Constructor
Creates a new Unserializer instance, with its internal buffer
initialized to buf
.
This does not parse buf
immediately. It is parsed only when calls to
this.unserialize
are made.
Each Unserializer instance maintains its own cache.
Methods
setResolver (r:TypeResolver):Void
Available on Neko, macOS, Linux, Windows
Sets the type resolver of this
Unserializer instance to r
.
If r
is null, a special resolver is used which returns null for all
input values.
See DEFAULT_RESOLVER
for more information on type resolvers.
Unserializes the next part of this
Unserializer instance and returns
the according value.
This function may call this.resolver.resolveClass
to determine a
Class from a String, and this.resolver.resolveEnum
to determine an
Enum from a String.
If this
Unserializer instance contains no more or invalid data, an
exception is thrown.
This operation may fail on structurally valid data if a type cannot be resolved or if a field cannot be set. This can happen when unserializing Strings that were serialized on a different Haxe target, in which the serialization side has to make sure not to include platform-specific data.
Classes are created from Type.createEmptyInstance
, which means their
constructors are not called.
Static variables
staticDEFAULT_RESOLVER:TypeResolver = new DefaultResolver()
This value can be set to use custom type resolvers.
A type resolver finds a Class
or Enum
instance from a given String
.
By default, the Haxe Type
Api is used.
A type resolver must provide two methods:
-
resolveClass(name:String):Class<Dynamic>
is called to determine a`Class` from a class name
-
resolveEnum(name:String):Enum<Dynamic>
is called to determine an`Enum` from an enum name
This value is applied when a new Unserializer
instance is created.
Changing it afterwards has no effect on previously created instances.