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.h... I am only suggesting the idea, not the implementation!!!! -- Sohail Somani http://uint32t.blogspot.com