Standard types

The following table lists all the types natively supported by the Bakery library. It includes standard native types such as int, float, bool, more complex types such as string, and also generic types like list<T>.

The first column shows the type names to be used in the recipe files. The second column shows the equivalent type which can be used for deserialization in the C++ program. Note that one bakery type can have multiple equivalent C++ types: for instance list can be deserialized into std::list<T> or std::vector<T>.

Bakery type	C++ types
int	int
short	short
char	char
bool	bool
float	float
double	double
string	std::string
pair<A, B>	std::pair<A, B>
tuple<T0, T1, ...>	std::tuple<T...>
list<T>	std::list<T> std::vector<T>
map<K, V>	std::map<K, V>

The binary data size and endianess of the primitive types are architecture dependent, just like C/C++ is. This means you don’t have to worry about this when loading data with Bakery, but this also means a compiled binary may not work as intended when copied on another architecture. The recommendation is to always copy the data and recipe files, but not the generated binaries.

Architecture independant types may be added in future versions of Bakery.