Serialisation/parsing of custom structures in JSON #60
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This patch adds traits for types to describe how they can be serialised and reified when using a JSON encoding. The approach here favours control over reification to avoid issues with arbitrary code being able to construct capability-bearing types by simply stating their names; here the person describing the JSON types must provide a mapping for them that describes the lowering and the reification passes.
In order to support custom serialisation, the package forks JSON into standard JSON (
json
object), and "extended" JSON (extended-json
) object. The extended JSON object stores non-standard types as the dictionary{"@type": "unique-tag", "value": ... }
, it then uses the mapping contained in the extended JSON type to both serialise and reify these types.Moving the extended JSON portion to a separate type avoids issues with JSON payloads that may use this convention in a different way, and also discourages a single object with all mappings.
Example usage: