From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-27 14:26:47
Scott Howlett wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In a recent post, I asked whether it was possible to swap deserialized
> pointer values for already-existing ones so I could merge the incoming
> data with objects already in memory. I guess the answer is no...
>
> An alternative is to serialize some other identifier instead of writing
> pointers, and then on de-serialization I find my existing objects via
> those identifiers. This works fine, but it leads to another question:
>
> How do I make my internal objects available to the deserialization
> routines so that they have an opportunity to look up the necessary
> information? Or more generally, How do I do stateful serialization /
> deserialization? For example, maybe I want to supply options that
> fine-tune how my data is serialized or deserialized.
I may be evil for suggesting this:
http://uint32t.blogspot.com/2008/03/lame-implementation-of-dynamic-scoping.html
I am only suggesting the idea, not the implementation!!!!
-- Sohail Somani http://uint32t.blogspot.com