Rustc serialize support for MessageItem

[hugoduncan]

Is there any interest in moving rustc serialize support for ItemMessage into dbus-rs?

[diwic]

Yes, very much so! Especially if it can do a bit more advanced stuff, such as converting an BTreeMap<String, MessageItem> to an Array of DictEntry(Str, Variant). From a quick look at your code, it does not look like you're there yet, though.

(Btw, completely unrelated: due to another issue dbus-rs was just renamed to dbus on crates.io.)

[diwic]

I currently have some helper functions (MessageItem::from_dict, and parse_msg_str and parse_msg_variant in objpath.rs) that could potentially use serialization instead.

[diwic]

Might be interesting to you - it's not serialization support, but it makes moving into/from MessageItem easier: 4a165f6

[diwic]

I'm closing this oldie in favor of #56 - I prefer msgarg over MessageItem these days, so I'm not going to work on this any time soon.