Right now I have some project where I build a very small database by using a Dict that maps singleton types to arbitrary types.
for example:
abstract type BaseType end
struct Sub1 <: BaseType end
struct Sub2 <: BaseType end
tmp = Dict(Sub1()=>"5", Sub2()=>10)
what I'm looking for right now is to have a proper way of serializing and deserializing that. Hooking into the abstract type machinery for BaseType didn't help at all. So I wonder, why don't we have the full StructTypes machinery enabled for all types that currently aren't supported as keys? To me that would be a perfectly valid generalization of the current approach given that the currently supported types, Symbol, String and Int64 are mapped per identity rn afaik.
Right now I have some project where I build a very small database by using a Dict that maps singleton types to arbitrary types.
for example:
what I'm looking for right now is to have a proper way of serializing and deserializing that. Hooking into the abstract type machinery for BaseType didn't help at all. So I wonder, why don't we have the full StructTypes machinery enabled for all types that currently aren't supported as keys? To me that would be a perfectly valid generalization of the current approach given that the currently supported types, Symbol, String and Int64 are mapped per identity rn afaik.