meta: add serial module for (de)serialising objects

serial/include/blue/serial.h

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+#ifndef BLUELIB_SERIAL_H_
+#define BLUELIB_SERIAL_H_
+
+#include <blue/core/misc.h>
+#include <blue/core/status.h>
+#include <blue/core/stream.h>
+
+struct b_object;
+
+typedef enum b_serial_format {
+	B_SERIAL_FORMAT_NONE = 0,
+	B_SERIAL_FORMAT_BITCODE,
+	B_SERIAL_FORMAT_JSON,
+} b_serial_format;
+
+typedef enum b_serial_flags {
+	B_SERIAL_F_NONE = 0,
+	B_SERIAL_F_PRETTY = 0x01u,
+} b_serial_flags;
+
+typedef struct b_serial_ctx b_serial_ctx;
+
+BLUE_API b_status b_serial_ctx_create(b_serial_ctx **out);
+BLUE_API b_status b_serial_ctx_destroy(b_serial_ctx *ctx);
+
+BLUE_API b_status b_serial_ctx_serialise(
+	b_serial_ctx *ctx, b_serial_format fmt, struct b_object *src,
+	b_stream *dest, b_serial_flags flags);
+
+BLUE_API b_status b_serial_ctx_deserialise(
+	b_serial_ctx *ctx, b_serial_format fmt, b_stream *src,
+	struct b_object **dest, b_serial_flags flags);
+
+#endif