Automatic persistence: detect which types cannot be properly persisted and skip them

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I’m wondering what the use cases for a persist method are if one cannot really check if the data can be properly persisted

Exactly the same as the automated system default and xxx.persist file based strategies I suppose, which don’t do any checking either.