Serialization is the process by which an object is converted into a format that can be stored and later retrieved.
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Properly managing a collection from deserialized XML file throughout app's lifetime
I'm developing a WinForms app to manage some settings and profiles for multiple video games. The list of video games is specified by the user, and I'm trying to figure out how to properly maintain ...
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A tiny library for textual serialization of lists in Java - follow-up 3
See the previous iteration. I have incorporated the answer of h.j.k.. Now I have:
LineStringSerializationFactory.java:
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A tiny library for textual serialization of lists in Java - follow-up 2
See the previous iteration. See the next iteration.
I emphasized the fact that serialization routine may not return a string with new line character by using more or less explicit identifier. Moved ...
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A tiny library for textual serialization of lists in Java - follow-up
See the previous and initial iteration.
See the next iteration.
I have mainly refactored the code and made it a little bit robust (if serialization of a single object produces a string with new line ...
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A tiny library for textual serialization of lists in Java
Note: see the next iteration.
I have this tiny library for (de)serializing lists of objects. The requirement is that each object's state may be represented textually as a single line of text. Later ...
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Persist values for a known set of keys in Python
Use case: I sometimes write programs that want to store a little state between runs, e.g., "What was the last file selected last time this program ran?" I wanted a convenient way to track this state. ...
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Serializable Queue header only library
I was hoping someone could check the library I 'm working on to see if they could give any suggestions. My biggest issue right now is getting tuple to work with more than just the basic types and I ...
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Rendering an HTML form based on a specification in a string
Here's a brief explanation of my method:
Provide a string and parse it to HTML code respecting a specific format.
The accepted format is:
For dropdown menu : Test DropDown~Select:Options1; ...
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Serialize/deserialize a vector using insertion/extraction operators
I've never serialized a structure to a file before in C++, so I'm looking for critique on my first try at it.
My main concerns are:
It uses the streams space-delimited behavior. If a ...
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Serializing and deserializing objects in Java
I have a class that receives an Object object as a parameter. Then, I want to write two functions to serialize, and ...
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De-serializing and Serializing objects the proper way
I am serializing and de-serializing a class object within the class which is then sent over the network like this:
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Pickling cars with simple management system in Python
This is my first Python program (before that I've been just poking around with the interpreter itself). I took this opportunity to do some user input and play around with ...
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Saving and restoring RadixTree object
I have a large word-file which is fixed with over 240 000 words. I need to check if a specific word exists in this list. I thought that it would be a good idea to create a ...
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Optimize a generic foreach method that converts Datatable to my object using Reflection
I need to optimize this code block below, this method converts a Datatable object to the Object that I am passing by parameter, in another words, this serializes the object, however I have to run this ...
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Creating an adjacency list in C++
I want to create an adjacency list based on data I get from a text file. Could I make this simpler?
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Simple medical collection/database about patients visits
I am writing a system for doctors who are regularly visited by patients. The doctor adds each patient's visit to collection/database. The class can save data to an .xml file and restore it. Can you ...
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Generic Pickle-Aware Super-Class for Mixing Classes with and without __slots__ in Python
I want a generic super-class that I can easily subclass - and if desired add slots to my class - without having to worry about any pickle issues (with the lowest protocol). Is this in general a good ...
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Custom Serialization of Game World
I'm working with libGDX for a game, and over the last few days I have tried a few different types of serialization before settling on a custom serialization implementation. XML had huge file sizes, ...
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Data Persistence
I was wondering if I could get some feedback on the library I created to persist data online.
JitterPushDemo.java
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Writing data into an image
I've done a script that will write things as images, which can then be read elsewhere (eg. you could share an mp3 through imgur). This is the first one I've done where I've been trying to improve my ...
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Servlet responses to upload/download requests
My task is to write a program to store files in object store. One of the subtasks requires to send json or xml format response to the file uploader/downloader as requested by client.
The following ...
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Excel to serializable object
I've got an Excel file from which I have to read out data to an object to serialize. So far I came up with this solution, and I'm curious if there are any clearer solutions.
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Simple Generic output for Deserializer
Lately I have been learning about serialization so I decided to write a little helper class for my application to make it easy to use this feature in multiple places. I actually mixed some generics in ...
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Reading and writing Serializable objects using NIO
I have created the following class to read Serializable object from file and write to a file.
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A simple “Tamagotchi” like game that uses math questions as food
I wrote a Tamagotchi-like game where to feed the pet, you do math questions instead of just pressing a button. It's persistent, in that on loading, it figures out long it's been since the last save, ...
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Mapping enum keys to instance values
I am working on a pathfinding program / algorithm, and I have the following class:
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Rolling my own Configuration with UI
The Rubberduck Saga continues as I find a need to roll my own configuration. Since the program is really a *.dll and available to several host applications, using app.config is not an option. I ...
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Finding Magic Comments to Create a Custom Task List
I've been working on a COM Add-in for the VBA IDE with a friend. The idea is to search the active VBA Project for "magic" comments and create a task list much like any sane IDE would have.
This is ...
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Save parameters in a “key: value” format
I have been playing with Java for around a year and I started writing this API for storing data in files. I wrote this method which will save the parameters in a "key: value" format in a file.
The ...
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Import and export of animation keys in Maya
I have programming this importing and exporting of animation keys. It is working, but I would like to gather any feedback/advice as I am still pretty much a noob in coding.
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Efficiently serialize big JSON using GSON without loading everything in memory?
Below is my JSON in which I have only three reportRecords just for demonstration purpose but in general sometimes we are getting pretty huge json, then it doesn't ...
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Is this a good way to implement a tile map from a text file?
I'm working on a small final fantasy type game. I have this for a tile map. I was just wondering if this is a good way to do this or if anyone has any suggestions, I would love to read them.
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Function to extract bytes as a decimal
You give this function a pointer and how many bytes you want to extract as a decimal and it returns it.
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Efficiently packing the header and data in one Byte Array in a single class
I have a header and data which I need to represent in one Byte Array. And I have a particular format for packing the header in a Byte Array and also a different format to pack the data in a Byte ...
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Transfer Python data structures through ssh
I need to communicate between 2 machines through ssh to do some processing on one of the machines, and at the end, transfer the output to the first machine. Given ...
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Saving bytes instead of objects to write smaller files
This question is about reducing the size of files saved to disk in an infinite world 2D mining game.
I finally added code to my game to save and load distant chunks instead of keeping all of them ...
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Basic Encoding Rules (BER) class for embedded system
I'm implementing a communications protocol in an embedded system and the protocol uses a subset of the ASN.1 BER (Basic Encoding Rules).
In a nutshell, this class simply represents a TLV triplet ...
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Encrypt and decrypt a serializable object
I want to make sure that the code I have for encrypting and decrypting a serializable object makes sense and is proper. Does it look right too?
Here's what I have so far:
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Inspector interface serializer
I've written some code that allows Unity3D's inspector to display fields that conform to an interface. Unity has some quirks about their inspector, so as a preface they are listed here:
If you add a ...
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Serializing data from two URLs in the same object efficiently
This is a follow-up to: Serializing JSON data coming from two URLs in the same object
I have two URLs (urlA and urlB) and they ...
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Persistent cookie support using Volley and HttpUrlConnection
I need to add support for persistent cookies on an Android app that I'm building for Authentication/Authorization. This app uses Volley for making HTTP requests and its ...
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Parsing Valve Key-Value files
Introduction
Valve recently launched the Dota 2 Workshop Tools, which allows players to create their own maps with custom gamemodes, similar to Warcraft 3 in capabilities.
Ability and unit ...
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Converting a boolean list to string, and vice versa
I am currently using this to convert a List of booleans to a string
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Should this container be a struct or a class?
I have a class that serves purely as a data container for passing values from a parsing class to a class responsible for saving the data. I have been wondering whether it would be more appropriate as ...
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Functionally Typed I/O Streams
I thought up a function that provides types with InputStream and OutputStream:
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Robust organization data class (partial followup)
This question is a partial followup from my previous question, however the requirements have changed: I now need to be able to store multiple data entries for some fields.
I also have added two hooks ...
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Updating XML config files
I have been unable to find any other way to update a user config file than the following method.
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Type-length-value (TLV) encode/decode
I wrote these methods to encode data as array of TLV objects, and also to serialize and deserialize them. Any feedback on improvements, etc. would be appreciated.
Please note that I ignored ...
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Reading and writing binary data in C++
I have written a small container class which groups a 3D position, a normal vector and a texture coordinate into one object. It uses the glm library for the actual data types (vec2 and vec3). This ...
