Say you have data in the format:
name=john;age=33;gender=male
What would you call a method that converts data like that into an an object / associative array?
I've been thinking about:
- unserialize_variables
- parse_variables
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35answers:
4The method should with any kind of data - not just person related.
Emanuil
2010-05-12 21:24:26
what about just Deserialise
Preet Sangha
2010-05-13 04:03:45
Yes that's an option but what if I need another "deserialize" method for another data format?
Emanuil
2010-05-14 05:47:04
A:
In two steps:
ContainerType person = data.parse();
Employee employee( person["name"], person["age"], person["gender"] );
bitc
2010-05-12 21:21:27
+1
A:
PersonReader. Works if you change how you persist the person data in the future too.
derdo
2010-05-12 21:22:43