Saveload example that features serializing/deserializing a whole World

[expenses]

Now that #460 has been merged, do you think we can get a more updated saveload example? I havent had much of a look at the existing docs, but it seems a little confusing. How would I go about e.g. serializing a whole World?

[expenses]

Actually, the docs for the specs::saveload::ConvertSaveload for the git version are pretty decent, what I'm really after is an easy example for serializing everything contained in a World.

[torkleyy]

You cannot just serialize the whole world, you would have to specify the components individually.

[expenses]

Oh ok, would there be a way to implement that? It would be incredibly helpful.

[torkleyy]

This is basically blocked by Rust, we need specialization for implementing that feature.

[torkleyy]

There is AnyStorage which we have a collection of, but not every component is serializable. If there was specialization, it could provide a method that serializes the components if possible.

By specifying all the types we can statically retrieve the implementation for Serialize / Deserialize.

[expenses]

Got it, thanks. I'll try my hand at serializing the individual components, I just have quite a few of them haha

[Riey]

@torkleyy

I want to saveload World either

specialization feature is not stable yet but it's possible to apply to Serialize and Deserialize

I make crate for that https://crates.io/crates/maybe-serde

it can be help for solve this issue?

[torkleyy]

Interesting! I think it could be used for this, yes.

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