On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Scott Carey wrote:
In a more general sense it is simply "from" and "to" -- One might move
from schema A to B without serialization at all, transforming a data
structure, or simply want a view of data in the form of A as if it was
in B.
I'd like to zoom in on this specific point for a little, if I may.
I think serialization is a red herring. It's always a transformation of
one data structure to another, because a claim could be made that one
cannot transform a serialized form without loading it into a data
structure first.
In fact, I think it's always the latter case, a *view*, as you aptly
described it. Which makes it not so much a "from" and "to", but more a
"view A as B"?
Something like:
value_b = value_a.view_as(schema_b)
Just my late-night $0.02.
Grisha
