Example of how to serialise and deserialise Structs in Ruby using the Standard Library

serialising_deserialising_structs.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'json'
require 'json/add/struct'
require 'awesome_print'

Serial = Struct.new(:foo, :bar, :baz)

s = Serial.new('this','that','the other')
puts 'The Struct instance'
ap s
# {
#     :foo => "this",
#     :bar => "that",
#     :baz => "the other"
# }

serialised = s.as_json
puts 'Serialised'
ap serialised
# {
#     "json_class" => "Serial",
#              "v" => [
#         [0] "this",
#         [1] "that",
#         [2] "the other"
#     ]
# }

json_string = serialised.to_json
puts 'Stringified'
ap json_string
# "{\"json_class\":\"Serial\",\"v\":[\"this\",\"that\",\"the other\"]}"

deserialised = Serial.json_create( JSON.parse(json_string) )
puts 'Deserialised'
ap deserialised
# {
#     :foo => "this",
#     :bar => "that",
#     :baz => "the other"
# }