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# Support for standard containers
The serialization and deserialization of containers is handled as follows:
`std::map<std::string, ...>`, `std::unordered_map<std::string, ...>`,
maps with any numeric types (integral and floating points) as keys,
and any objects where the `ReflectionType` is either a `std::string` or
a numeric type are treated as objects.
Consider the following map:
```cpp
std::map<std::string, std::string> homer;
homer["firstName"] = "Homer";
homer["lastName"] = "Simpson";
```
This will be represented as follows:
```json
{"firstName":"Homer","lastName":"Simpson"}
```
The same is true for numeric types:
```cpp
std::map<int, std::string> homer;
homer[1] = "Homer";
homer[2] = "Simpson";
```
This will be represented as follows:
```json
{"1":"Homer","2":"Simpson"}
```
If you wrap your keys into a `rfl::Validator`, this will be treated as an object as well:
```cpp
using Between1and3 = rfl::Validator<int, rfl::Minimum<1>, rfl::Maximum<3>>;
std::map<Between1and3, std::string> homer;
homer[1] = "Homer";
homer[2] = "Simpson";
```
This will also be represented as follows:
```json
{"1":"Homer","2":"Simpson"}
```
All other supported standard containers
(other than `std::variant`, `std::optional`, `std::unique_ptr` and `std::shared_ptr`)
will be represented as arrays. Containers for which the `value_type`
is a key-value-pair will be represented as arrays of pairs.
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