Most DeHL types (such as Nullable, TFixedArray, BigInteger, etc.) provide their own serialization and deserialization methods.

defines the TIniSerializer that you can use to serialize/deserialize type into Ini files or registry (through RTL’s TRegIniFile).

Supports it’s own set of attributes (such as XmlRoot, XmlElement, etc.).

defines the TXMLSerializer which can be used to serialize/deserialize into XML nodes (uses TXMLDocument).

contains the semi-implementation of a “serializer” and it’s context.

The TClassType detects whether this interface is implemented by the object and uses it for serialization (no, reference counting is not touched).

All classes can now implement ISerializable interface.

The old method was a mix-up of Delphi 2009 and Delphi 2010 RTTI specifics (which have some essential differences in my case).

TPointerType, TRecordType, TArrayType, etc.It contains the base definitions of types used by the type system for serialization. A new unit named DeHL.Serialization was added.Each type class (that describes a type in Delphi) now knows how to serialize values of the type it manages. In order to support serialization, DeHL’s type system was extended to support Serialize and Deserialize methods.The following list describes the changes that went into the new version: You can still use 0.7 release in Delphi 2009.īack to serialization. It made no sense to support 2009 for future versions since no essential changes are made to the prior code. This post will demonstrate the new capabilities of DeHL it’s advantages and and shortcomings.īut first - since the new releases will focus mostly on serialization and related stuff, I decided to drop Delphi 2009 support. I’ve just been busy with a delicate new feature - Serialization. A few months have passed and I did not release a new version of DeHL yet.

Delphi serialize class to xml