Need help (de)serializing a custom binary data type in both JSON and MsgPack

[attermann]

Describe the issue
I have a custom class Bytes that represents a buffer of binary data. I would like to be able to include (de)serialization for the class that can be used with either JSON or MsgPack where it uses a Base64 encoded string for JSON and MsgPackBinary for MsgPack.

It seems like it used to be possible in version prior to 7 to detect whether JSON or MsgPack was in use while (de)serializing (e.g., isMsgPack() on the Variant). Is this still possible in version 7? If so can I get some tips on how to implement?

TY!

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MacOS native for testing/dev.

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[bblanchon]

Hi @attermann,

It seems like it used to be possible in version prior to 7 to detect whether JSON or MsgPack was in use while (de)serializing (e.g., isMsgPack() on the Variant)

Where did you get that information?

Best regards,
Benoit