Introduction

Outside of our application, qARK documents are stored as plain text. This is great for saving qARK to a text file, but not so great for reading and managing it in code. So instead, we use a serializer, to convert plain text to a qARK document and vice versa.

qARK Document

The document is how we interact with qARK in code. It's a container for different types of elements such as comments or entries. We can create or deserialize one from text using a serializer.

Storing values

When deserialized, values are stored as a string, so when adding or reading an entry's value, it first has to go through conversion.