Re: Serializing a non-Serializable class...

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:59:35 -0500

Message-ID:

<hk2339$brt$1@news.albasani.net>

KB wrote:

Yes I have included the .jar file from the API in Eclipse as an
External JAR but still not sure how that helps me Serialize the
objects... are you saying I should edit this JAR ?

I want to be able to store an instance of the message returned from
the API onto my harddrive so that I am not continually calling the API
while testing my code, but at the same time using the methods for that
class to access/manipulate the object (rather than just pulling the
data into a database and then manipulating it).

Sorry if my question is noobish as I am more comfortable with Python
and pickling than Java's Serialization, but forced to use Java for
this API.

"Forced" to use a premier language and platform means that you are a lucky person.

You can implement the serialization methods 'writeObject()', 'readObject()'
and perhaps 'readObjectNoData()', also perhaps 'writeReplace()' or
'readResolve()' manually for the class that composes your external class, or
alternatively use 'java.io.Externalizable' to wrap the external class and
implement its methods manually.

You could also use a custom serialization, perhaps using XML.

--
Lew