A way to truly serialize & deserialize instance objects in NodeJS.
Don't you wish you could serialize an instance of a class into a string and get a clone of the original object complete with all the methods and prototype chain of the original upon deserialization?
This library does just that.
$ npm install --save serialize-instance
// or
$ yarn add serialize-instanceimport {Serializer} from 'serialize-instance';
import {MyClass} from './MyClass';
// Serialization
let obj = new MyClass('Tomatoes'); //Instance Object
let serialized = Serializer.serialize(obj); //Generic Object
let jsonified = JSON.stringify(serialized); //JSON string
// Deserialization
let objectified = JSON.parse(jsonified); //Generic Object
let deserialized = Serializer.deserialize(objectified); //Instance object
obj.constructor === deserialized.constructor // TRUE- The constructor of all instances to be serialized must be exported from their modules.
- The constructor of an instance must not be defined in the entry file.
This library depends on a WeakMap populated from node's require.cache
therefore in order to recognize and store constructor metadata,
the constructor must be accessible in require.cache
This was mostly just a proof of concept and is currently being used in
development for a very narrow case of serializing a few objects with Buffers
and Dates to redis cache.
Use this library at your own risk.
MIT