Writing Converters¶

Introduction¶

In RSB, converters are used to serialize and deserialize programming-language objects for transportation (e.g. over a network connection). RSB comes with converters for the fundamental types listed here. However, in many use-cases it is necessary to use additional converters for domain-specific types and/or serialization mechanisms.

This page describes how to add such converters to RSB using the running example of a converter for TODO.

Preparation¶

In order to implement a new converter, the following information is required:

• To/from which wire-type will the converter serialize/deserialize? In our example, the wire-type is TODO.
• Which data-type or (data-types) will be handled by the converter? TODO in our example.
• What is the wire-schema of the converter?

Implementation: C++¶