[Xotcl] Questions about the Serializer

[Gustaf Neumann]

Scott,

my recommendation is to define a mixin-class overloading create,
where you can specify conveniantly what should be done after
each object is created. register this mixin class before you perform
the eval of the serialized code, and deregister it after it.

concerning point 1, there is as well a -map option for deepSerialize
for conveniance (see http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/doc/Serializer-xotcl.html)

best regards
-gustaf neumann


Scott Gargash schrieb:
>
> I'm using XOTcl objects to control hardware, and I'm trying to use the 
> Serializer to persist hardware configurations. However, I've run into 
> a couple of issues.
>
> 1) Not all of the object state is the consistent across 
> serialization/deserialization. The hardware handle, for instance, may 
> not be the same at deserialization time as it was when serialization 
> occurred. What I'd like to do is remap some member variables to 
> un-substituted variables ("-set hwhandle $handle" instead of "-set 
> hwhandle 0x1234"), and then I'll set the variable to the correct value 
> when restoring the configuration. I see a way to ignore variables and 
> a way to remap object names, but is there a way to remap variables? 
> Short of a global regsub on "Serializer deepSerialize" return result, 
> that is?
>
> 2) The serializer bypasses initialization (-noinit), and basically 
> just restores the internal state of the object. But in my application, 
> I need to bring the hardware state into sync with the xotcl object, so 
> just setting xotcl state variables doesn't suffice. Is there an easy 
> way when deserializing to have some code executed after the object's 
> state has all been restored? Something like a -noinit flag, but 
> instead have a custom -init?
>
> Maybe instead of "-noinit", objects should have a "-init method" flag 
> that determines the initialization mechanism? If the flag is not set, 
> or is set to "init", the "init" method is invoked (default behavior), 
> if the flag is set to some arbitrary method ("-init hwsync"), that 
> arbitrary method gets invoked, and if the flag is set to an empty list 
> ("-init {}"), no init method is invoked.
>
> Scott
>
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