I have in mind two options:

  • Code in the class being saved/loaded. The flows for each entity/model are in the same place, so it’s easy to just have one file open to see all the functionalities of that class, but this means having more code in a single file.
  • Code in a dedicated class (like a factory)
    This makes each file smaller, but spreads flows of a single model into different parts of the repo, also because I’m thinking of having a directory /src/models and another like /src/export (or serialize)

What do you guys think?
What’s your preferred way to organize the save and load flows?

  • deegeese
    5·
    6 hours ago

    Models should contain or inherit their own serializers/deserializers.

    Either put the generic serialization in a base Model class, or make the base Model class defer implementation to a reusable Serialization helper class, preferably an off the shelf library.