serialization

Is java object serialization compatible between 1.5 and 1.6

I am wondering whether it is safe to mix jdk 1.5 and 1.6 (Java 6) object serialization (biderctional communication). I searched for an explicit statement from sun concerning this question but did not succeed. So, besides the technical feasability I am searching for an "official" statement concerning the problem. ...

Is there an existing way to turn source code back into a CodeCompileUnit?

We use the DesignSurface and all that good IDesignerHost goodness in our own designer. The designed forms are then persisted in our own bespoke format and all that works great. WE also want to export the forms to a text-based format (which we've done as it isn't that difficult). However, we also want to import that text back into a docu...

Design time serialization in C#

I have created a non-visual component in C# which is designed as a placeholder for meta-data on a form. The component has a property which is a collection of custom objects, this object is marked as Serializable and implements the GetObjectData for serilizing and public constuctor for deserilizing. In the resx file for the form it will ...

How to implement custom JSON serialization from ASP.NET web service?

What options are there for serialization when returning instances of custom classes from a WebService? We have some classes with a number of child collection class properties as well as other properties that may or may not be set depending on usage. These objects are returned from an ASP.NET .asmx WebService decorated with the ScriptSe...

Serialization of a long array (in C)

Hi, in a C program I have an long* that I want to serialize (thus converting to chars). A long doesn't fit in a single char, and the size varies depending of the processor (can be 4 bytes or 8 bytes). Theres a good way to make the serialization and de-serialization? ...

Unable to serialize a property on a control

Background I am trying to create a copy of a business object I have created in VB.NET. I have implemented the ICloneable interface and in the Clone function, I create a copy of the object by serializing it with a BinaryFormatter and then de-serializing straight back out into another object which I return from the function. The class I...

Adding durability to in-memory data structures

What are some of the popular techniques you can adopt to add durability to your in-memory data structures (ie) if the process crashes, you can preserve all previously executed operations on that data structure? If my data structure involves just a list of tuples, then I would just store them in a SQL DB and that would give me durabilit...

Persisting Printer Settings

What is the best way to persist/save printer settings in .Net? There used to be a bug in .Net 1.1 in the serialization of the PrinterSetting object and there were some workarounds but I'm wondering if there isn't a better or easier way of doing this in the more recent versions of the framework. The main use case is to allow a user to de...

How to serialize SettingsContext and SettingsPropertyCollection

I need to serialize the System.Configuration.SettingsContext and System.Configuration.SettingsPropertyCollection types as i am implementing my own profile provider. Any suggestions on how to do it in the most simplest way. ...

How to serialize System.Configuration.SettingsProperty

I need to serialize the System.Configuration.SettingsProperty and System.Configuration.SettingsPropertyValue class object through WCF. ...

Java: Serializing Array of own Objects

Hello, i have an Array of Objects of my class: public class Message implements Serializable{ static final long serialVersionUID = -1L; private String receiver; //Empfänger private String sender; //Absender private String Betreff; private String content; private String timestamp; ...} I am able to safe it with an Object*Stream b...

Java: Serializing unknown Arraysize

If I safe an Array and reload it, is there a possibility to get the size if its unknown? Thanks ...

Overriding serialization for a particular .NET type

Please consider this example class: [Serializable] public class SomeClass { private DateTime _SomeDateTime; public DateTime SomeDateTime { get { return _SomeDateTime; } set { _SomeDateTime = value; } } } I would like to alter the serialization of any DateTime declared in the class according to my own rules. ...

Java: Serializing beginner problem :-(

I want to save and store simple mail objects via serializing, but I get always an error and I can't find where it is. package sotring; import java.io.*; import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.*; import com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.generic.INEG; public class storeing { public static vo...

Proper way to deal with variations in JSON serialization

I have a web service that uses Python's SimpleJSON to serialize JSON, and a javascript/ client that uses Google's Visualization API. When I try to read in the JSON response using Google Data Table's Query method, I am getting a "invalid label" error. I noticed that Google spreadsheet outputs JSON without quotes around the object keys. ...

How does WCF deserialization instantiate objects without calling a constructor?

There is some magic going on with WCF deserialization. How does it instantiate an instance of the data contract type without calling its constructor? For example, consider this data contract: [DataContract] public sealed class CreateMe { [DataMember] private readonly string _name; [DataMember] private readonly int _age; priva...

Serializing Lists of Classes to XML

Hi All, I've got a collection of classes that I want to serialize out to an XML file. It looks something like this: public class Foo { public list<Bar> BarList { get; set; } } Where a bar is just a wrapper for a collection of properties, like this: public class Bar { public string Property1 { get; set; } public string Property...

Groovy parsing JSON vs XML

Using groovy, would you expect better performance in terms of speed and memory overhead to read and query JSON vs XML? ...

GUI tool to browse Java serialized objects

Is there a GUI application that can open serialized Java object files (both binary and XML format) and display them in browsable fashion (maybe like the Eclipse debugger displays the state of variables)? It needs to work at least partially when not all classes can be resolved (an option to attach extra jars would be nice) or when there ...

[C#] Serialization problem

The situation is like this : Main project A. and a class library B. A references B Project B has the classes that will be serialized. The classes are used in A. Now, the problem appears when from Project A I try to serialize the objects from B. An exception is thrown that says a class from A cannot be serialized. This is the strange par...