Conditional serialization for crypto primitives (string or bytes)

[Artemkaaas]

Make conditional serialization for crypto primitives:

• For JOSN serialization, crypto primitives such BugNumber's, Points, etc. are represented as string.
• For message pack or cbor these crypto primitives represented as bytes.

[andrewwhitehead]

I had just been thinking about this recently because the string serialization of points is so bad (not normalized or compressed). The serde Serializer has an is_human_readable method which is often used to indicate support for byte strings. Maybe that could be used to choose the default serialization, and the deserializer could support bytes or strings?

[Artemkaaas]

I had just been thinking about this recently because the string serialization of points is so bad (not normalized or compressed). The serde Serializer has an is_human_readable method which is often used to indicate support for byte strings. Maybe that could be used to choose the default serialization, and the deserializer could support bytes or strings?

Thank you! It seems to be exactly what we need.