SerializationService

Up and coming: shot check knows this class and its members today, and programs run it once the native runtime lands.

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Save objects as text, load them back, and keep numbered versions.

use SerializationService gives it. Serialize writes the instance lines of the project file, the same text the Explorer's copy puts on the clipboard, so one format serves the project, the clipboard and your saves. SaveVersionAsync writes each version as a numbered .shotsystem file that shot open shows.

A service: write use SerializationService.

Passes shot check todayLuau

local function example(x : SerializationService)
	local copies, why = x:Deserialize(x:Serialize({ Instance.new("Folder") :: any }))
	print(copies, why)
end

Methods

Name	Arguments	Returns	Description
Serialize	`(instances: { ShotInstance })`	`string`	The instances and their children as the project file's instance lines, the same text the Explorer's copy puts on the clipboard.
Deserialize	`(text: string)`	`({ ShotInstance }?, string?)`	Unparented copies with new ids, as a paste in Studio makes them; nil and "line N: ..." when the text is bad.
SaveVersionAsync yields	`(folder: PathHandler, instances: { ShotInstance })`	`(number?, string?)`	Writes the instances as the folder's next numbered .shotsystem file, one past the highest there, and returns its number.
GetVersionsAsync yields	`(folder: PathHandler)`	`({ number }?, string?)`
LoadVersionAsync yields	`(folder: PathHandler, version: number?)`	`({ ShotInstance }?, string?)`	Loads a saved version's instances; with no version, the highest.
ReadRobloxFileAsync yields	`(path: PathHandler)`	`({ ShotInstance }?, string?)`	Reads the instances of a .rbxm, .rbxmx, .rbxl or .rbxlx file, outside the run's tree.

From ShotInstance 33