You can include the type in the serialized string. When recovering you can read the type and use to look for the appropriate deserializer in a lookup table where you have registered the deserializer.
I use this trick in the IDynamic package,. that serializes-deserializes dynamic types:
2012/10/20 Corentin Dupont
<corentin.dupont@gmail.com>
Hi the list!
I have a simple question, how can I serialize/deserialize a structure like this:
data InputChoice c deriving Typeable
data Event a where
InputChoice :: (Eq c, Show c) => [c] -> c -> Event (InputChoice c)
(...)
I'd like that the values of type "c" get serialized to a String... That's the easy part, but for deserializing, oops!
Cheers,
Corentin
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