Serialising Flows

Introduction
Before introducing flow serialising,  is important to remind that Conan Flows are 2 dimensional data structures.
We believe that for most use cases, when you would like to access a flow you would like to serialise it.
Let's illustrate this graphically. Let's use again the authentication example:
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Status
State 1
State 2
State 3
State 4
State 5
notAuthenticated
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''                       
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'invalid password'
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authenticating
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[username/TACOS]
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[username/password]
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authenticated
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credentials
We provide you with two serialisation mechanisms, one to serialise everything, the other one to serialise a single status.
Both of them leverage Conan State to provide you the final serialised result.
toStateAll() - Serialising everything
authentication$F.toStateAll()
By serialising all, you will create a ConanState of Status​
From the example above, this would be the visual equivalent of the generate ConanState.
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State 1
State 2
State 3
State 4
State 5
nextData
name
notAuthenticated
data
''                       
name
authenticating
data
username/
TACOS
name
notAuthenticated
data
'invalid pass..'
name
authenticating
data
username/
password
name
authenticated
data
credentials
toState(statusName) - Serialising a single status
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Similar to toStateAll, toState statusName), will generate a ConanState of the data type associated to the status being serialised.
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Let's have a look at a couple of examples
authentication$F.toState('notAuhtenticated')
Will generate a ConanState which will provide the following states
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State 1
State 2
nextData
''                       
'invalid password'
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authentication$F.toState('authenticating')
Will generate a ConanState which will provide the following states
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State 1
State 2
nextData
[username/TACOS]                     
[username/password]
To see some example for serialisation, check our Testing State, in that example, we leverage the serialisation of flows to show what the underlying meta flow is doing
Using Conan Flows
You might be familiar with the TACOS acronym that describe the attributes for Conan Data.
​Conan State documents these in detail in its different document sections.
By being able to transform Conan Flows into Conan State, you should be able to leverage these attributes for Conan Flows too.
Note that for convenience we also provide with some shortcuts for observing flows, but we think the best way to leverage flows is to convert them into Conan State.
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Creating Flows

Observing Flows

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	State 1	State 2	State 3	State 4	State 5
nextData	name notAuthenticated data ''	name authenticating data username/ TACOS	name notAuthenticated data 'invalid pass..'	name authenticating data username/ password	name authenticated data credentials

Status	State 1	State 2	State 3	State 4	State 5
notAuthenticated	💡 ''		💡 'invalid password'
authenticating		💡 [username/TACOS]		💡 [username/password]
authenticated					💡 credentials