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#pragma once
 
#include <cbeam/container/buffer.hpp> // for cbeam::container::buffer
 
#include <cstdint> // for uint8_t
#include <cstring> // for memcpy, std::memcpy
 
#include <type_traits> // for std::is_standard_layout, std::is_trivial
 
namespace cbeam::serialization
{
    using serialized_object = void*;

    template <typename T>
    struct traits
    {
        static_assert(std::is_standard_layout<T>::value && std::is_trivial<T>::value,
                      "A specialization of cbeam::serialization::traits must be implemented for types that are not both standard-layout and trivial.");

        static inline void serialize(const T& val, container::buffer& stream)
        {
            // implementation for types that are both standard-layout and trivial
            stream.append(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&val), sizeof(val));
        }

        static inline void deserialize(serialized_object& it, T& val)
        {
            // implementation for types that are both standard-layout and trivial
            uint8_t* local_it = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t*>(it);
            std::memcpy(&val, local_it, sizeof(val));
            local_it += sizeof(val);
            it = local_it;
        }
    };
}