On Apr 26, 4:12 pm, John Tamplin <j...@google.com> wrote: > 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.
D'oh, you're right of course, I forgot about the asymmetric encoding! If anyone's interested in using Protobuf in GWT, (shameless plug) have a look at my new pet project: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-gwt/ And if you prefer Thrift to Protobuf, then have a look at gwt-rpc-plus from DotSpots (and Matt Mastracci in particular): http://code.google.com/p/gwt-rpc-plus/ -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
