- From: Martijn <martijn@cruiser.vo.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 13:58:41 +0100 (MET)
- To: www-jigsaw@w3.org
Hi, This isn't really a jigsaw related question, but since jdbm is included with the jigsaw package i'm asking it here anyway. In the original gdbm package in C, it's possible storing/retrieving any datatype. Storing a big structure and retrieving it by casting back to the original datatype is possible. Very handy feature. Would it be possible doing this with jdbm as well? Would there be an easy way to store an object that is an instance of a dataholder class? Right now i see a way to store a String object because the String class defines methods to get a byte array copy of its value and giving it a value using a byte array copy of the desired value. How would i clone a random object to a byte-array so that i can store it using jdbm? And how would i create an instance back from the byte-array to the object? If anyone already did this, please let me know, Martijn
Received on Monday, 4 November 1996 08:01:34 UTC