From e7c7c07cdac6594c8519aca5775b21495ef8cdcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wmayer <wmayer@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:52:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] implement object serialization for Vector class

---
 src/Base/VectorPy.xml    | 11 +++++++++--
 src/Base/VectorPyImp.cpp | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Base/VectorPy.xml b/src/Base/VectorPy.xml
index c4954a85f2..b26041a136 100644
--- a/src/Base/VectorPy.xml
+++ b/src/Base/VectorPy.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,14 @@
 		<DeveloperDocu>This is the Vector export class</DeveloperDocu>
 		<UserDocu>This class represents a 3D float vector</UserDocu>
 	</Documentation>
-		<Methode Name="add" Const="true">
+    <Methode Name="__reduce__" Const="true">
+        <Documentation>
+            <UserDocu>__reduce__()
+                      Serialization of Vector objects
+            </UserDocu>
+        </Documentation>
+    </Methode>
+        <Methode Name="add" Const="true">
 			<Documentation>
 				<UserDocu>add(Vector)
 					      returns the sum of this and another vector
@@ -32,7 +39,7 @@
 				</UserDocu>
 			</Documentation>
 		</Methode>
-		<Methode Name="negative" Const="true">
+        <Methode Name="negative" Const="true">
 			<Documentation>
 				<UserDocu>negative()
 					      returns the negative (opposite) of this vector
diff --git a/src/Base/VectorPyImp.cpp b/src/Base/VectorPyImp.cpp
index b1b3bf4f2b..633f652415 100644
--- a/src/Base/VectorPyImp.cpp
+++ b/src/Base/VectorPyImp.cpp
@@ -88,6 +88,26 @@ int VectorPy::PyInit(PyObject* args, PyObject* /*kwd*/)
     return -1;
 }
 
+PyObject*  VectorPy::__reduce__(PyObject *args)
+{
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, ""))
+        return 0;
+
+    Py::Tuple tuple(2);
+
+    union PyType_Object pyType = {&VectorPy::Type};
+    Py::Object type(pyType.o);
+    tuple.setItem(0, type);
+
+    Base::Vector3d v = this->value();
+    Py::Tuple xyz(3);
+    xyz.setItem(0, Py::Float(v.x));
+    xyz.setItem(1, Py::Float(v.y));
+    xyz.setItem(2, Py::Float(v.z));
+    tuple.setItem(1, xyz);
+    return Py::new_reference_to(tuple);
+}
+
 PyObject* VectorPy::number_add_handler(PyObject *self, PyObject *other)
 {
     if (!PyObject_TypeCheck(self, &(VectorPy::Type))) {