On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Runar Jordahl <runar.jordahl@gmail.com>wrote:

Interesting project. There are so many uses for object serializers. Personally I am looking at storing objects in NoSQL databases, and serializing them is an option that will work in a lot of cases. Using a serializer for copying objects is also useful.

Does Fuel support “cutting off” instance variables, like SIXX’s Object>>sixxIgnorableInstVarNames ?

Runar, could you please tell us how that is done? how such method looks like? MyClass >> sixxIgnorableInstVarNames ^ #('age' 'blah') ? Second, what happens are serialization time? SIXX puts a nil ? and at materialization? when the object is created from the XML you get a nil in those instVars ? And of course, you implement Objet >> sixxIgnorableInstVarNames ^ () ? Yes I know....I can take the code and look by myself...but not time now :( Thanks Mariano I always thought SIXX

(http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~umejava/smalltalk/sixx/index.html ) was state-of-the-art in this field. It seems to have many features, and it is supported on many dialects. Are your ideas so great that it really makes sense to create yet another serializer? Wouldn’t improving SIXX be better?

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