[joshday]

The goal here is to remove a lot of the boilerplate necessary for dealing with abstract types:

abstract type Vehicle end

StructTypes.@auto Vehicle  # Can be called *before* the concrete type definitions

struct Car <: Vehicle
    make::String
    model::String
    seatingCapacity::Int
    topSpeed::Float64
end

struct Truck <: Vehicle
    make::String
    model::String
    payloadCapacity::Float64
end



c = Car("Mercedes-Benz", "S500", 5, 250.1)

s = JSON3.write(c)

JSON3.read(s, Vehicle) == c

Under the hood:

1. A __type__ key is added to the serialized JSON (configurable via @auto MyType mysubtypekey.
2. I rely on eval to get the deserialized type from the __type__. I examine the Meta.parse-ed Expr to order to determine whether it's safe to eval. I typically don't mess with eval, so I may have missed something that makes this unsafe.

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Codecov Report

Patch coverage: 34.78% and project coverage change: -1.97% ⚠️

Comparison is base (9cca137) 75.31% compared to head (6e1b9f4) 73.34%.

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[quinnj]

[comment generated via AI] Thanks for the proposal. StructTypes is in maintenance mode (JSON.jl 1.x builds on StructUtils instead) and only gets fixes now, so closing. JSON.jl 1.x handles abstract types with JSON.@choosetype.