hrm, so the default jdk serialization is also building a toc? interesting,
thats what i wanted to know.
-igor
On 2/12/07, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> no, this is different
>
> B b=new B(); b.a=new A(); b.aprime=new A();
>
> they are different instances, i am talking about class headers not
> references
> the way jdk serialization works is that for every class it does
something
> like this
> [class-header classname,etc][fields]
> so what i want to know and dont really have time to look into is
This:
static class A implements Serializable {
}
static class B implements Serializable {
private A first;
private A second;
private A third;
private A fourth;
}
and this
B b = new B();
b.first = new A();
b.second = new A();
b.third = new A();
b.fourth = new A();
Serializing b will first write out the class header for B, then, when
it writes out B's fields, the class header for A the first time it
encounters it, and then 3 times a just reference to the header (and
bye for tag and an int for the reference.
Maybe we're talking about different things here? But I'm sure Johan
will be able to take care of it :)
Eelco
