On 03/26/2018 11:44 AM, Steven Oliver wrote: > I want to implement "saving" in my program. The data I want to save is > a custom object. Is it possible in vala to simply write the object to > disk (in binary I assume) without having to implement a to_string > method? > > It seems like such a simple concept yet i can't seem to figure out how > to do it in Vala.
A very simple option (assuming you don't have an object graph to serialize) could be to use either: Json.gobject_serialize() Json.gobject_to_data() to serialize and Json.gobject_deserialize() Json.gobject_from_data() to deserialize. If you need custom hooks into what will get serialized, you can implement Json.Serializable. If you really want binary, GVariant is a rather nice serialization format, but you might need to bring your own serializers. Json-GLib has some code for working with GVariant too, but I've not used it. If you need an object graph, the Gom¹ library I made several years back can help, but it is more intrusive on your object design. I've only used it from C, but others have used it from Gjs, so I would expect it to work in some form from Vala. -- Christian ¹ https://git.gnome.org/browse/gom _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
