On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexan...@bergel.eu>wrote:

> Yes.
> Visitor is a convenient pattern to perform a computation over each element
> of a recursive data structure.
> This pattern works well for trees. You need to pay attention to cycle when
> using it on a graph. This might be expensive if you have a large graph and
> you use a set to keep track of the element you run over.
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It has to be as faster as possible, but I think that the Set would be ok.




> Do you want to do this on any object of the image?
>
>
Yes, for any object. It's for serializing a graph of objects into a
stream. We need to iterate over the transitive closure of object references.

Do you know an existing package that implements this pattern?





> Alexandre
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Thank you for the answer
Martin




> On 2 Sep 2010, at 10:36, Martin Dias wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > We want to do some processing over the graph of object references.
> >
> > Do you recommend an implementation of visitor pattern to iterate object
> instance variables?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Martin and Tristan
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