On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Krüger, Olaf <[email protected]> wrote:
> So my general question is: > Is it evil to serialize an object only to persist it? > What are the pros and cons? > In various projects we've come across this. Sometimes we've just shoved it in there. Sometimes we parsed the hell out of it to fit in various tables. The question always comes back to "do we need to search/edit the data on the server?" Remember that hierarchical schemas are a very real and accepted form of storage... most people just know them as XML. -- Jonathan Campos
