Check out: http://staff.develop.com/halloway/code/objectio.html
You may want to use ObjectStreamWalker to see what is being written to the file. -----Original Message----- From: Eddie Bush [mailto:ekbush@;swbell.net] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:01 PM To: Struts Users List Subject: [OT] Serialization issue - stream has problems flushing? I've got a friend asking me questions I don't have the answers to. I was in hopes one of you may. My buddy uses serialization (ie. ObjectOutput/InputStream wrapping FileOutput/InputStream for writing/reading objects to/from disk) as per a suggestion I made when asked for a non-database approach ("they" [the powers that be] were very adimate about not wanting to use the DB). He doesn't have any libs laying around to facilitate using XML serialization - and he didn't want to have to get them and get their installation approved. Right now, I'm regretting I didn't advise him to go through that hassle though. It seems some of the objects he's serializing ... aren't! He has one instance where a file containing an object is like 10 bytes - and it should be more like 300-ish. His cohorts suggested that there were known issues with streams not flushing - but I'm not aware of them. Is this a fact? Is there a way to serialize without using streams? (I have to think someone is full of beans wrt the streams not flushing, but he's convinced that is what's happening and is looking to me for advice on how to rectify the situation). So ... any suggestions? Is there a way to do serialization in the traditional sense that does not involve the use of streams? Even the XML serialization techniques involve streams, do they not? Thanks! -- Eddie Bush -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
