How to skip fields?

[wicast]

I want to skip fields like: https://serde.rs/attr-skip-serializing.html

[liuzicheng1987]

This is currently unsupported, but it shouldn't be hard to do.

I actually haven't used this feature with serde. I think the syntax could look like this:

struct Person {
     std::string first_name;
     std::string last_name;
     int age;
     rfl::Skip<std::string> town;
};

This would prevent the field from being skipped during serialization and deserialization. We could also include rfl::SkipSerialializing and rfl::SkipDeserializing, just like serde.

[liuzicheng1987]

@wicast , there is a draft in this branch:

https://github.com/getml/reflect-cpp/tree/f/skip

It's not documented yet, but it basically works as we discussed:

https://github.com/getml/reflect-cpp/blob/f/skip/tests/json/test_skip.cpp

What do you think? Is this what you wanted?

[wicast]

Good enough for me, thank you.