Generating multiple serializers for the same types

[Astn]

@jamescourtney
There are some very user friendly features with some of the serializer options like lazy, but in some situations another mode works better.

I'm thinking of having multiple .fbs files with the serializer annotations specified differently in each of the files, but all of the data types identical.

Then depending on which type of serialization I want to use, I can easily have access to the other serializers.

Does this seem like a good approach?

[jamescourtney]

FlatSharp v7 does this by default: https://github.com/jamescourtney/FlatSharp/releases/tag/7.0.0. The fs_serializer attribute now only specifies the default serializer for YourType.Serializer. There are a few ways to gain access to the other serializers:

• YourType.Serializer.Parse(buffer, FlatBufferDeserializationOption.Progressive)
• var progressiveSerializer = YourType.Serializer.WithSettings(opts => opts.UseProgressiveDeserialization());
• If on .NET 7:

public static T ParseProgressive<T>(byte[] buffer) where T : IFlatBufferSerializable<T>
{
    return T.ProgressiveSerializer.Parse(buffer);
}