From 079c1d0e18ed52056fc23d1a4b8be3d25c7e601e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Ariel Mayobre <pablo.a.mayobre@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:45:15 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Utils.shallowCopy as a default serializer/deserializer for
 Components

---
 concord/component.lua | 3 +++
 concord/utils.lua     | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/concord/component.lua b/concord/component.lua
index 0ac83e6..04691a6 100644
--- a/concord/component.lua
+++ b/concord/component.lua
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 local PATH = (...):gsub('%.[^%.]+$', '')
 
 local Components = require(PATH..".components")
+local Utils      = require(PATH..".utils")
 
 local Component = {}
 Component.__mt = {
@@ -47,9 +48,11 @@ function Component:__populate() -- luacheck: ignore
 end
 
 function Component:serialize() -- luacheck: ignore
+   return Utils.shallowCopy(self, {})
 end
 
 function Component:deserialize(data) -- luacheck: ignore
+   Utils.shallowCopy(data, self)
 end
 
 -- Internal: Creates a new Component.
diff --git a/concord/utils.lua b/concord/utils.lua
index 68ae22b..da83c4d 100644
--- a/concord/utils.lua
+++ b/concord/utils.lua
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ function Utils.shallowCopy(orig, target)
    for key, value in pairs(orig) do
       target[key] = value
    end
+
+   return target
 end
 
 --- Requires files and puts them in a table.