New persistence exploration

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Exploration of new possibilities to re-implement serialization in HeuristicLab.

• Simplify usage for developers, i.e. attribute [Storable].
• Reduce memory usage by replacing the DOM based parser with something else (see #277)

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Created new Branch with initial implementation of AutoStorable attribute (r1274).

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last comment should reference revision r1247

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Evaluation of .NET native serialization (r1248).

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Full serialization from object tree to XML. No de-serialization yet. (r1264)

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Complete serialisation/deserialization cycle. (r1274)

Custom serialization poses one important problem: Either the custom serializer can instantiate the object (necessary for e.g. arrays) but its sub-components cannot reference it or a more complex mechanism has to be created.

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Cleaner distinction between custom serialization and composite serialization. (r1276)

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Configurable de-serializers. (r1279)

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Split classes into more files. (r1280)

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Proper deserialization of parent references. (r1281)

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Serialization of double values. (r1312)

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Serialization of multi dimensional arrays. (r1313)

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added primitive serializers for bool and DateTime. (r1315) added compound serializers for KeyValuePair and IDictionary. (r1316) refactoring of serializers & update of serializer tests. (r1317)

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added default constructors that include all serializers from the persistence assembly. (r1318)

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fix ArraySerializer for Array datatype. (r1319)

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store actual type information instead of declared type. (r1320)

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automatic cloning with the help of Storable attributes and ICompoundSerializers. (r1321)

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cached cloning. (r1322)

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More compact XML Formatting (no empty names, referencable primitives, compact arrays & lists). (r1330)

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Include storable attributes of base classes. (r1331)

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Enable object instantiation using non-public default constructors. (r1332)

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Initialize non-serialized values with specified default values. (r1336)

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split off test case, include assembly names, format empty variable names (r1338)

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support for compositve value types (r1339)

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renamce primitive serializers to formatters and compound/custom serializers to decomposers. (r1348)

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Central persistence configuration class. (r1349)

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Implement a type cache. (r1355)

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Unify token classes for parsing and formatting, make format specification mandatory. (r1356)

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Pluginification and major refactoring. (r1357)

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Better formatting configuration interface. (r1358)

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Externalize tag names for XML formatting/parsing. (r1359)

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Scrap Storable-based cloning & reorganize namespaces. (r1360)

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Split all classes into their own file (r1361)

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Add serializer class information to type cache. (r1362)

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Convenience method for XML serialization and de-serizliation. (r1363)

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Simple GUI configuration for decomposers. (r1373)

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Almost complete GUI for persistence configuration. (r1382)

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Complete GUI for persistence configuration. (r1398)

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Deposit GUI-generated Configuration object at ConfigurationService. (r1400)

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Initialize GUI with current configuration form ConfigurationService. (r1401)

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New attribute for legitimately empty but storable classes. (r1404)

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Add empty storable class attributes to classes (r1405)

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Incorporate settings infrastructure. (r1406)

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Abstract base class for formats to ensure comparability. (r1407)

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Added Type decomposer for serialization of Type objects. (r1408)

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Include decomposer configuration in dynamically created tab pages for every persistence configuration. (r1414)

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Don't crash if user configuration cannot be loaded. (r1418)

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Implement persistence of storables as decomposer. (r1419)

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Remove old storable persistence mechanism. (r1420)

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Remove unnecessary class attributes. (r1421)

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New extension method to obtain a full name without version information an public key token. (r1422)

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Add missing file StorableDecomposer.cs (should belong to r1419) (r1423)

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Use version invariant assembly qualified name and update plug-in assembly name. (r1425)

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Bug fix type names for interfaces don't work with version invariant type names. (r1427)

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Refactoring of Generator interface. (r1428)

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View-only serializer for debugging purposes. (r1429)

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Fix nasty copy&paste bug. (r1433)

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Almost complete solution for correctly handling parent references. (r1434)

Currently enumerables can cause problems if they contain references to parents that have not yet been constructed. A potential delay of the add procedure will re-order the elements. Therefore, we currently have two array decomposers: a safe version that will never re-order enumerables but may fail on uninstantiated parents and a robust version that might re-order elements.

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Properly deserialize enumerables with parent references, use single Setter delegate, fix id references of primitive values. (r1435)

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Cleanup DeSerializer code. (r1437)

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Include lower bounds in serialized arrays. (r1438)

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merge persistence exploration branch into trunk as HL plugin. (r1454)

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