Ok, upon looking into this some more, I'm sad to say it looks like this won't work right now :(. We need to figure out a way to run the serialization for just the base class and how to do that isn't entirely obvious - so it probably won't make 2.0. I've opened a bug to track the issue though: http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=18823 Feel free to vote on it so we'll fix it sooner.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Serge Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 9:15 PM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: Re: [IronPython] Serializing IronPython classes Okay now this is getting interesting. I assumed that the warning was about the child class, but I'm not sure. A bit of info: The parent C# class is called Object. I did the override on on __reduce_ex__ as you suggested but trying to pickle still produced the same error: Type 'IronPython.NewTypes.Engine.Object_1$2' in Assembly 'Snippets.scripting, Version=0.0.0.0<http://0.0.0.0>, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' is not marked as serializable. For curiosity, I called __reduce_ex__ on a child instance and got the following error: expected Vector2, got Object_1$2 There are several Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Vector2 members and it looks like they're being replaced by this Object_1$2 which I assumed at first to be the child class because of its name. __reduce_ex__ on the parent instances works fine. I'm out of my depth here so I can't give more meaningful information. On 10/7/08, Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Ahh, that sounds like a bad bug, but I think I know what's causing it - we're hitting the new.NET serialization support because __reduce_ex__ is now defined for you :) Can you add an override that dispatches __reduce_ex__ to the object version, eg: def __reduce_ex__(self, *args): return object.__reduce_ex__(self, *args) We should probably do that automatically for user-defined instances which should be easy to do if this works for you. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] On Behalf Of Serge Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 7:36 PM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: Re: [IronPython] Serializing IronPython classes Thanks for the heads up, however trying to use cPickle, I still get the error saying that the child class is not marked as serializable..? On 10/7/08, Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I would strongly encourage you to use cPickle or pickle instead of .NET serialization. In 2.0 all .NET serializable types can also be pickled - they define __reduce_ex__ which handles this. First off we should be setting the serializable bit on subclasses that are serializable - that's just a bug that we're not doing that. But once we've done that the problem w/ .NET serialization is that ultimately we need a static method or type that we can point at that does the deserialization. For a user defined type in Python we will need to be able to deserialize the type, the module the type lives in, and presumably even the ScriptRuntime which holds the module. Pickle handles this by serializing the module & type name but w/o a ScriptRuntime we couldn't even get at that. We might have been able to require a ScriptRuntime to be smuggled in the StreamingContext but it's not clear that it would work well. So if you really want .NET serialization we can fix the bug - but you'll need to implement ISerializable and figure out some way to deal getting the class, module, and runtime information saved/restored yourself. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] On Behalf Of Serge Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 9:24 PM To: users@lists.ironpython.com<mailto:users@lists.ironpython.com> Subject: [IronPython] Serializing IronPython classes I've run into problems with serialization. I have a serializable class defined in C# which gets extended from IP, however when I try to serialize a collection of both parent and child instances, I get an exception saying that the IP generated class is not marked as serializable. With the lack of attributes, I am guessing I must do something else to enable serialization? Regards, Serge. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com<mailto:Users@lists.ironpython.com> http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com<mailto:Users@lists.ironpython.com> http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
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