tree e37da1f669bc682d20c20ee372773aaf4aa6cba7
parent 3a10d4cabd5508b8dd155a27302173af1b9775ea
author Ben Clayton <bclayton@google.com> 1578216343 +0000
committer Ben Clayton <bclayton@google.com> 1578322824 +0000

Serialization: Correctly encode structs with no fields

Empty structs were being serialized as `null`, when they should have been serialized as `{}`.

This was due to the type inference on the serializer - where no calls to `field()` would result in the default `null` type.

To solve this, the `serialize(const void* object, const std::initializer_list<Field>&)` inline helper has been promoted to a virtual function (and renamed to `fields()`).
The JSON serializer implementation of this now first sets the object type to `object`, even if there are no fields to serialize.

Added test for this.

Fixes: #10