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fix(serde): make serde.zig analysable and run its 16 tests (#70) - #80

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Closes #70.

serde.zig had never been analysed as a whole — lazy @import, callers instantiate only what they use, 16 inline tests collected by no step. Referencing it from the test root exposed three defects, none of them dead code:

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autoSkipField forwards a runtime field_name to shouldSkipField, which requires it comptime Compare at runtime against the comptime skip list. The runtime parameter is the right one — it's the skipField fn-pointer contract every call site and the engine's save.zig use — so the signature stays and the engine is unaffected
six tests init ArrayList(u8) with .{} .empty
six tests write via buf.writer(allocator) (gone in 0.16) std.Io.Writer.Allocating + written() — the same idiom the engine's save.zig:162 uses for this exact writer

root.zig's test block now lists serde.zig: suite 214 → 230 (the 16). Sabotage — autoSkipField never skips — fails its two direct tests and the Saveable-roundtrip test that passes it as skipField, i.e. the way the engine does.

Same family as labelle-gfx#363: "add a test" is not enough on its own; the file has to be reachable from a test context, proven by sabotage.

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`src/serde.zig` had never been analysed as a whole: `root.zig` reaches it
through a lazy `pub const serde = @import`, consumers instantiate only the
functions they call, and its 16 inline tests were collected by no step.
Referencing it from the test root exposed three defects:

- `autoSkipField(comptime T, field_name)` forwarded a RUNTIME
  `field_name` to `save_policy.shouldSkipField`, which requires it
  comptime. The runtime parameter is the right one — it is the
  `skipField` contract (`fn (type, []const u8) bool`) that every
  `writeComponent` / `readComponent` call site and the engine's
  save path use — so the fix is on this side: compare at runtime against
  the comptime skip list. Same answer, type-checks, signature unchanged.
- Six tests initialised `std.ArrayList(u8)` with `.{}` (0.16: `.empty`)
  and wrote through `buf.writer(allocator)`, which no longer exists.
  They now use `std.Io.Writer.Allocating` — the idiom the engine's
  `save.zig` already uses for the same writer — and read `written()`.

`root.zig`'s test block now lists `serde.zig`; the suite goes 214 → 230.
Sabotage: making `autoSkipField` never skip fails its two direct tests
and the Saveable-roundtrip test that passes it as `skipField`.

Nothing in the file turned out to be dead code — every failure was a
0.16 API drift or the comptime/runtime mismatch above.

Closes #70

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XBGRLojiysEr5zy1U5mbP6
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The test collector now analyzes serde.zig. autoSkipField uses the comptime skip-field list. Serialization tests now use std.Io.Writer.Allocating and its written buffer.

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Enable serde analysis and skip-field handling
src/root.zig, src/serde.zig
The test collector imports serde.zig. autoSkipField compares runtime field names with the comptime skip-field list.
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Roundtrip tests use std.Io.Writer.Allocating and parse buf.written() instead of using std.ArrayList(u8).

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Update the stale test-collector note before merging; the remaining issue has limited impact on runtime behavior.

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Fixed in e7668ad — right, the paragraph above the test list still called serde.zig deliberately absent, one line above the import that now collects it. Comment-only.

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