Building an Extensible Type Serialization System Using Partial Template Specialization
summary
A compact, pragmatic survey that builds and demos an extensible type-serialization prototype on top of FlatBuffers, showing how partial template specialization gets you compile-time dispatch while C++20 Concepts and ADL simplify intent and diagnostics; includes a working proof‑of‑concept that lets users register custom serializers and shows when runtime registration is unavoidable, plus tradeoffs in developer experience, error quality, and scalability — practical code examples and migration patterns rather than high-level platitudes.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Start
- 0:50Building an Extensible Type Serialization System Using Partial Template Specialization
- 1:39Building a Serialization Library
- 3:04Inspiration
- 10:00Function Overloading
- 10:53Callbacks
- 11:59Json Library
- 14:18Boost Serialization
- 16:25Class Template Specialization
- 16:47Partial Template Specialization
- 20:40Using Partial Template Specialization
- 27:23Arrays
- 27:59Type Alias
- 32:25Numeric Values
- 35:55Problem with Serialization Libraries
- 38:32Code Example
- 41:27Macros
- 43:12Static Reflection
- 45:54Technical Specification Draft
- 50:41Conclusion
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