Final GSoC Part2 Update

Closes #2326.
This pull request contains updates for my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project at the Final evaluation stage.

First PR (Midterm Evaluation Part): Changing the way the serialize, serialize_into and deserialize functions work
Second PR (Final Evaluation Part1): Implementing (de)serialization routines for generic data types

Feature Implementation

• Implementing serialize_into for all the types.
• Implementing deserialize for all the types.
• Implementing serialization functions for lua_table.
• Implementing serialization functions for var.
• Implementing serialization functions for Object_Tiers.
• Implementing serialization functions for enigma::Background.
• Implementing serialization functions for enigma::AssetArray.
• Creating a map for script variables that is generated at compile time.
• Implementing compiler serialization functions.
• Modifing game_save_buffer and game_load_buffer.

Testing Functions (unit tests/SOG)

• Testing serialize_into.
• Testing deserialize.
• Unit testing for the generic types.
• SOG tests for game_save_buffer and game_load_buffer.

Organization

• Make a new directory for JSON serialization functions.
• Separate file for each type.
• bytes_serialization namespace.
• JSON_serialization namespace.
• Make a new directory for Types_Impl_Bytes.
• Make a new directory for Types_Impl_JSON.
• Make new file JSON_parsing_utilities.h.

To Be Done Before Merging

• Modify detect_serialization.h.
• Modify all serialization.h functions.
• Replace internal_serialize_into_fn in Object_Tiers, Background and tests.
• Documentation for all the files.
• Extract split and find_value functions from the functions.
• Add remove_whitespaces function.

Adding new types for the JSON format

Create a new file in the Types_Impl_JSON directory for your new type, and then include this file in the JSON_types_serialization_includes.h file.

Every new data type in our system should implement the following functions

• internal_serialize_into_fn

    template <typename T>
    matches_t<T, std::size_t, is_new_type> inline internal_serialize_into_fn(const T& value) {
        std::string json = // ....
        // ....
        return json;
    }

• internal_deserialize_fn

    template <typename T>
    matches_t<T, T, is_new_type> inline internal_deserialize_fn(const std::string& json) {
        T result;
        // ....
        return result;
    }

Sample game that is compatible with the AST_Generation branch

Balloon_Pop (It is the same game in the ENIGMA site but with modified scripts).

Ongoing Work