Re: How do I pack a class into a string? Is serialize available?

"Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat@exocore.com> writes:

On 28 Aug 2001, Doug McNaught wrote:

What problem are you trying to solve?

I wanted to write a small utility to keep two databases synchronised.
Whenever I add a row to a table in the local database, I intend to put a
trigger that would update a special table with the modified tablename and
the serialised version of the new row. I then copy this single table
across and rebuild my remote database.

And advice?

Well, you could certainly write a set of per-table serialization
functions, and attach each one to its table via a trigger. It might
actually be possible to write a generel serialization function in C if
not in one of the other languages.

What you need to do is come up with a serialization format, perhaps
stealing one (from PHP?). ;) Serialization is basically a matter of
escaping and delimiting data; how you do it depends on what kind of
data you have and how it's put together.

Does this help?

-Doug
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