On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:21 AM, dflorey <daniel.flo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to easily serialize GTW-serializable objects to string > on the client side? > I'd like to be able to story arbitrary objects to the html5/gears > local db as string. > Any ideas? Can I hook into the GWT rpc-serialization mechanism? The problem is for efficiency reasons the GWT RPC serialization is asymmetric -- the client can't deserialize what is serializes and vice-versa. Also, values stored in a local database will likely need to be used across versions of the app, so GWT RPC isn't really appropriate anyway -- probably better to use protobufs or JSON, though in either case you give up the ability to represent arbitrary Java object graphs. -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors