Migration to .NET 8 and enable AOT compilation.

.github/workflows/dotnet.yml

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v3
       with:
         dotnet-version: |
+          8.0.x
           7.0.x
           6.0.x
     - name: Display dotnet version

.github/workflows/publish-nuget.yml

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v3
       with:
         dotnet-version: |
+          8.0.x
           7.0.x
           6.0.x
     - name: Display dotnet version

src/Playground/Playground.csproj

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
-    <TargetFrameworks>net7.0</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>net8.0</TargetFrameworks>
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
     <Nullable>disable</Nullable>
     <Configurations>Debug;Release;ReleaseWithDoc</Configurations>

src/ZoneTree.UnitTests/ZoneTree.UnitTests.csproj

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>net7.0</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>net8.0</TargetFrameworks>
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
     <Nullable>disable</Nullable>
 

src/ZoneTree/Core/ZoneTreeMetaWAL.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
 using Tenray.ZoneTree.Exceptions;
 using Tenray.ZoneTree.Options;
 using Tenray.ZoneTree.Segments.RandomAccess;
@@ -235,12 +236,7 @@ public void SaveMetaData(
             BottomSegments = bottomSegments,
         };
 
-        var bytes = JsonSerializer.SerializeToUtf8Bytes(
-            newZoneTreeMeta,
-            new JsonSerializerOptions
-            {
-                WriteIndented = true
-            });
+        var bytes = JsonSerializeToUtf8Bytes(newZoneTreeMeta);
         var deviceManager = Options.RandomAccessDeviceManager;
         var metaFilePath = deviceManager.GetFilePath(0, MetaFileCategory);
 
@@ -289,10 +285,43 @@ public static ZoneTreeMeta LoadZoneTreeMetaWithoutWALRecords(
         var bytes = device.GetBytes(0, (int)device.Length);
         device.Close();
         deviceManager.RemoveReadOnlyDevice(device.SegmentId, MetaFileCategory);
-        var meta = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<ZoneTreeMeta>(bytes);
+        var meta = JsonDeserialize(bytes);
         return meta;
     }
+
+    private static byte[] JsonSerializeToUtf8Bytes(ZoneTreeMeta meta)
+    {
+#if NET8_0_OR_GREATER
+        return JsonSerializer.SerializeToUtf8Bytes(
+            meta,
+            ZoneTreeMetaSourceGenerationContext.Default.ZoneTreeMeta);
+#else
+        return JsonSerializer.SerializeToUtf8Bytes(
+                    meta,
+                    new JsonSerializerOptions()
+                    {
+                        WriteIndented = true
+                    });
+#endif
+    }
+
+    private static ZoneTreeMeta JsonDeserialize(byte[] bytes)
+    {
+#if NET8_0_OR_GREATER
+        return JsonSerializer.Deserialize<ZoneTreeMeta>(bytes, ZoneTreeMetaSourceGenerationContext.Default.ZoneTreeMeta);
+#else
+        return JsonSerializer.Deserialize<ZoneTreeMeta>(bytes);
+#endif
+    }
+}
+
+#if NET8_0_OR_GREATER
+[JsonSourceGenerationOptions(WriteIndented = true)]
+[JsonSerializable(typeof(ZoneTreeMeta))]
+internal partial class ZoneTreeMetaSourceGenerationContext : JsonSerializerContext
+{
 }
+#endif
 
 public enum MetaWalOperation
 {

src/ZoneTree/ZoneTree.csproj

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <Deterministic>true</Deterministic>
     <ContinuousIntegrationBuild>true</ContinuousIntegrationBuild>
     <NeutralLanguage>en-US</NeutralLanguage>
-    <TargetFrameworks>net7.0;net6.0</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>net8.0;net7.0;net6.0</TargetFrameworks>
     <RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/koculu/ZoneTree</RepositoryUrl>
     <GeneratePackageOnBuild>true</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>