Option to Expect Specific Struct Name Upon Deserialization

[sylv256]

I think it would be helpful to be able to enforce that a specific struct name is present when deserializing a struct. I mainly want to enforce this as part of style in my game's assets.

[juntyr]

Thank you for the suggestion @SylvKT! At the moment, RON allows a struct to either be unnamed or to have the same name that serde specifies. Do you want an extension to forbid the former, i.e. that structs must always mention their name?

[sylv256]

Thank you for the suggestion @SylvKT! At the moment, RON allows a struct to either be unnamed or to have the same name that serde specifies. Do you want an extension to forbid the former, i.e. that structs must always mention their name?

Yes, I'm looking for a way to force the struct in RON to be both named and match the name provided by serde.

[juntyr]

@SylvKT Ok, thanks for the clarification! That shouldn’t be too difficult to add, my idea would be to add an extension, e.g. explicit_struct_names, and to check for it inside the struct parsing code. At the moment, we allow checking for the struct name to fail without modifying the parser state so that we can continue checking without a struct name. Now, if the struct name isn’t there, we would emit an error here.

At the moment, I’m unable to code it up myself for personal reasons but hopefully my explanation might be sufficient for you to submit a PR? I’d be happy to review it and to help you land it.