Encode for foreign types?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by reading bitcode's existing derive and serialization entry points, then determine how custom handling for foreign types would fit alongside the current API. Done should include a decided interface and round-trip serialization and deserialization for an IndexVec-like foreign type.

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Description

enhancement

Serde has #[serde(deserialize_with = "path")] in order to deserialize using a custom function. I'm not sure how easy that would be to implement in bitcode.

The issue I currently have is that I'm using IndexVec which I can't add derives to, and I'd like it to serialize (and deserialize) like a Vec.

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