Comments on: Easy binary serialization of Scala types http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/02/easy-binary-serialization-of-scala-types/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:56:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David R. MacIver http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/02/easy-binary-serialization-of-scala-types/#comment-130 David R. MacIver Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:52:00 +0000 http://www.drmaciver.com/wordpress/?p=84#comment-130 Yeah, the separately defined read and write functions are moderately annoying. It isn't ideal. I'm probably going to leave those as is, but <br/><br/>a) provide helpful combinators for building up binary instances.<br/>b) See if I can figure out a nice way of doing code generation for defining binary instances for the cases where you don't care about the precise formats<br/><br/>C++ templates have an advantage here (albeit one which requires black magic to use), as they can integrate the code generation into the actual API. Yeah, the separately defined read and write functions are moderately annoying. It isn’t ideal. I’m probably going to leave those as is, but

a) provide helpful combinators for building up binary instances.
b) See if I can figure out a nice way of doing code generation for defining binary instances for the cases where you don’t care about the precise formats

C++ templates have an advantage here (albeit one which requires black magic to use), as they can integrate the code generation into the actual API.

]]> By: Jeppe http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/02/easy-binary-serialization-of-scala-types/#comment-129 Jeppe Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:47:00 +0000 http://www.drmaciver.com/wordpress/?p=84#comment-129 Nice to have an alternative to the bloated and slow Java serialization (it has its advantages though). I find it quite annoying to have to write both a read and a write function for a data type. I wonder if it's possible to do something like http://www.boost.org/libs/serialization/doc/tutorial.html#simplecase in Scala. There you only have to write one method that does both reading and writing, thus eliminating any inconsistency bugs. Nice to have an alternative to the bloated and slow Java serialization (it has its advantages though). I find it quite annoying to have to write both a read and a write function for a data type. I wonder if it’s possible to do something like http://www.boost.org/libs/serialization/doc/tutorial.html#simplecase in Scala. There you only have to write one method that does both reading and writing, thus eliminating any inconsistency bugs.

]]> By: David R. MacIver http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/02/easy-binary-serialization-of-scala-types/#comment-128 David R. MacIver Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:42:00 +0000 http://www.drmaciver.com/wordpress/?p=84#comment-128 Cool. Hope you find it useful! Feel free to ask questions about it, and please send me feedback if you do use it. :-) Cool. Hope you find it useful! Feel free to ask questions about it, and please send me feedback if you do use it. :-)

]]> By: Jason http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/02/easy-binary-serialization-of-scala-types/#comment-127 Jason Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:35:00 +0000 http://www.drmaciver.com/wordpress/?p=84#comment-127 Excellent. I was just about to embark on a similar project (ditto the screaming heebie-jeebies with java serialization). Thanks! Excellent. I was just about to embark on a similar project (ditto the screaming heebie-jeebies with java serialization). Thanks!

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