Maybe this is not in the scope of this forum... But is there a time and place for serializing an obj and then saving it to a DB vs saving it's members? I am trying to get out of the saving and loading of each member that I declare. Is serialization a bad(lazy) route?
On Aug 29, 11:58 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Greg Hedin wrote: > > Is it possible to pass a serializable object to SQLite using the ole > > 'android.content.ContentValues' class? I am making a to-do-list > > application and I rather than writing a 'put' line for each member of > > my task object, I want to send the whole object to sqlite and move > > on... this makes things more manageable later on when I decide I > > designed my app poorly and need to change my class around. :P > > Serialization usually makes this worse, not better, IMHO. > > > I have found Java Serialization to mySQL examples, but no sqlite > > examples. I am new to the concept of Serialization in Java and I've > > heard that you can get your object to be represented as a double, this > > may be a solution for me. > > Serialization does not get your object to be represented as a double. It > gets written to a stream, which typically writes to a local file: > > http://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/ObjectOutputStream.html > > You can probably arrange a way to have the stream dump to a byte[] and > store that in a BLOB column. Or, don't use SQLite -- I seem to recall > there is at least one object database for Android available. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Development Wiki:http://wiki.andmob.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
