Would it interesting to be able produce strings from the type instances?

[Elisedlund]

Right now there's support for de-serializing types from a string, Would it be interesting to also be able to produce(by serializing) these strings from the type instances?
parser.toString(listWithInt)
parser.toString(listWithBoolean)
parser.toString(mapOfStrings)

example/usecase:
saveState {
savedState = parser.toString(mapOfStrings)
}

loadState {
mapOfStrings = parser.parse(savedState,new GenericType<Map<String,String>(){});
}

[drapostolos]

Good question! You mean like for List the parser.toString() would strip off the trailing square brackets [] when calling List.toString(), so it can be parsed back again?

[Elisedlund]

yes.

[drapostolos]

I was thinking such serializing functionality could be put in a separate library (perhaps with a dependency towards type-parser?), to avoid increasing the foot-print of the TypeParser library (So the users of only the parse functionality should not be forced to include the code for serializing as well).