Added support for structs and strings in unions.

(C++ only for now).
Also fixed vector of union support in the object API.

Bug: 36902939
Change-Id: I935f4cc2c303a4728e26c7916a8ec0adcd6f84cb
Tested: on Linux.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/source/CppUsage.md b/docs/source/CppUsage.md
index 0e226fc7..cff3071b 100755
--- a/docs/source/CppUsage.md
+++ b/docs/source/CppUsage.md
@@ -411,4 +411,22 @@ manually wrap it in synchronisation primites. There's no automatic way to
 accomplish this, by design, as we feel multithreaded construction
 of a single buffer will be rare, and synchronisation overhead would be costly.
 
+## Advanced union features
+
+The C++ implementation currently supports vectors of unions (i.e. you can
+declare a field as `[T]` where `T` is a union type instead of a table type). It
+also supports structs and strings in unions, besides tables.
+
+For an example of these features, see `tests/union_vector`, and
+`UnionVectorTest` in `test.cpp`.
+
+Since these features haven't been ported to other languages yet, if you
+choose to use them, you won't be able to use these buffers in other languages
+(`flatc` will refuse to compile a schema that uses these features).
+
+These features reduce the amount of "table wrapping" that was previously
+needed to use unions.
+
+To use scalars, simply wrap them in a struct.
+
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