Try "blobDictionary"… ;-)

> Am 25.02.2017 um 17:56 schrieb o...@ocs.cz:
> 
> Thanks! But... sorry for me being stupid, but where do I find them? Google 
> can't find the former at all suggesting I really wanted “blood dictionary”; 
> as for the latter, there's the opposite problem -- zillions of hits, among 
> which the proper one _might perhaps_ be hidden somewhere...
> 
> All the best,
> OC
> 
>> On 25. 2. 2017, at 6:32 PM, George Domurot <g...@knuckleheads.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Use the Prototype of blodDictionary or mutableDictionary to do the heavy 
>> lifting for you.
>> 
>> -G
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 25, 2017, at 8:19 AM, o...@ocs.cz wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> this must be WebObjects 101 and I must be blind as a bat, but ... how on 
>>> earth does one use the value conversion/factory model support to represent 
>>> e.g., an attribute containing an NSDictionary (or another custom data 
>>> object) by a BLOB containing archived data?
>>> 
>>> Far as I understand the support, I specify the desired EO-side class, plus 
>>> an instance method to archive it to NSData, plus a class method (in 
>>> Javaspeak presumably a static one) to initialise an instance from NSData. 
>>> But... there are no such methods far as I know for most data classes. E.g., 
>>> I would need something like
>>> 
>>> class NSDictionary ... {
>>> static NSDictionary theMethodToBeUsedForValueFactory(NSData data) {
>>>  ByteArrayInputStream bis=new ByteArrayInputStream(data.bytes())
>>>  ObjectInputStream is=new ObjectInputStream(bis)
>>>  return objectInputStream.readObject()
>>> }
>>> NSData theMethodToBeUsedForValueConversion() {
>>>  ByteArrayOutputStream bos=new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>>>  ObjectOutputStream os=new ObjectOutputStream(bos)
>>>  os.writeObject(this)
>>>  os.flush()
>>>  return new NSData(bos.toByteArray())
>>> }
>>> }
>>> 
>>> none of which, far as I know, actually exists. In Objective C the solution 
>>> would be trivial, I would simply add appropriate methods through a 
>>> category; but the bloody Java thing has no similar support.
>>> 
>>> What am I missing and how does one solve this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> OC
>>> 
>>> 
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