Serialize strategy for entities

[thomasboyt]

Concerns:

• postMessage can handle circular dependencies. It's unclear if chrome.runtime.sendMessage can do so as well. Hopefully, it can, since this will remove the need for a lib that handles circular refs, and will allow the object to be unpacked in a circular manner
• postMessage cannot handle (per MDN) DOM nodes, functions, and errors

It seems like, before being sent through postMessage, an entity needs to be cleaned of unserializable parts. It seems like the only clean way to do this is to piggy-back off of an existing in-JS structured clone implementation.

Possible options:

• cycloneJS allows custom clone procedures so e.g. functions and DOM nodes can be replaced with string placeholders

[thomasboyt]

Whoops, chrome's port.postMessage is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT API from window.postMessage, and internally uses JSON.stringfy instead of a structured clone algorithm! Gross.

Will need to rethink.

[thomasboyt]

current status: fuckit.js