Serializer.hpp

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// TGUI - Texus's Graphical User Interface
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#ifndef TGUI_SERIALIZER_HPP
#define TGUI_SERIALIZER_HPP


#include <TGUI/Loading/ObjectConverter.hpp>


namespace tgui
{
 class TGUI_API Serializer
 {
 public:
 using SerializeFunc = std::function<std::string(ObjectConverter&&)>;

 static std::string serialize(ObjectConverter&& object);

 static void setFunction(ObjectConverter::Type type, const SerializeFunc& serializer);
 static const SerializeFunc& getFunction(ObjectConverter::Type type);

 private:
 static std::map<ObjectConverter::Type, SerializeFunc> m_serializers;
 };

}


#endif // TGUI_SERIALIZER_HPP