D'oh. Thanks a lot!

OC

> On 25. 2. 2017, at 7:01 PM, Fabian Peters <lists.fab...@e-lumo.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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