Serialization of EO user objects.

eo/src/serial/Object.h

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+# ifndef __EOSERIAL_OBJECT_H__
+# define __EOSERIAL_OBJECT_H__
+
+# include <map>
+# include <string>
+# include <sstream>
+
+# include "Entity.h"
+# include "Serializable.h"
+
+namespace eoserial
+{
+
+/**
+ * @brief JSON Object
+ *
+ * This class represents a JSON object, which is basically a dictionnary
+ * of keys (strings) and values (JSON entities).
+ */
+class Object : public eoserial::Entity, public std::map< std::string, eoserial::Entity* >
+{
+public:
+    typedef std::map<std::string, eoserial::Entity*> JsonValues;
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Adds a pair into the JSON object.
+     * @param key The key associated with the eoserial object
+     * @param eoserial The JSON object as created with framework.
+     */
+    void add( const std::string& key, eoserial::Entity* json )
+    {
+        (*this)[ key ] = json;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Adds a pair into the JSON object.
+     * @param key The key associated with the eoserial object
+     * @param obj A JSON-serializable object
+     */
+    void add( const std::string& key, const eoserial::Printable* obj )
+    {
+        (*this)[ key ] = obj->pack();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Deserializes a Serializable class instance from this JSON object.
+     * @param obj The object we want to rebuild.
+     */
+    void deserialize( eoserial::Persistent & obj )
+    {
+        obj.unpack( this );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Dtor
+     */
+    ~Object();
+
+    /**
+     * @brief Prints the content of a JSON object into a stream.
+     */
+    virtual std::ostream& print( std::ostream& out ) const;
+};
+
+} // namespace eoserial
+# endif // __EOSERIAL_OBJECT_H__
+