Serialization

Serialization

[Tomek Walkuski]

Is there any serialization / deserialization library for Ada? Or maybe
same theoretical papers how should it be implemented?

Re: Serialization

[Ludovic Brenta]

Tomek Walkuski wrote:
> Is there any serialization / deserialization library for Ada? Or maybe
> same theoretical papers how should it be implemented?

It is built into the language. Check out streams and the Distributed
Systems Annex: Ada Reference Manual clauses 13.13.*, A.12.* and E.*.

--
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: Serialization

[Dmitry A. Kazakov]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:40:35 -0700 (PDT), Tomek Walkuski wrote:

> Is there any serialization / deserialization library for Ada? Or maybe
> same theoretical papers how should it be implemented?

Depending on what you mean:

1. Marshaling: see stream I/O attributes S'Input and S'Output

2. Interlocking: see protected objects and tasks.

3. Persistence layer: I maintain one library and there certainly exit
others.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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Re: Serialization

[Tomek Wałkuski]

On 29 Lip, 18:04, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> Depending on what you mean:

I will be implementing Memcached [1] protocol soon (which will be open
source, of course). There is a need of marshalling / demarshaling
objects.

[1] http://www.danga.com/memcached/

Re: Serialization

[Dmitry A. Kazakov]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:20:55 -0700 (PDT), Tomek Wa�kuski wrote:

> On 29 Lip, 18:04, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> wrote:
>> Depending on what you mean:
> 
> I will be implementing Memcached [1] protocol soon (which will be open
> source, of course). There is a need of marshalling / demarshaling
> objects.
> [1] http://www.danga.com/memcached/

So I presume that you should provide a stream implemented on top of it and
that is all you should worry about.

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P.S. Again, it all depends on what you want. Ludovic has already mentioned
the distributed systems annex. I guess that Memcached could be used as a
transport layer for it, provided it has some usable notification services
rather than raw memory replication.

We (now as a software firm) use a different approach to distribution than
the Annex E. Memcached could be used there as well, though our customers
have their own preferences concerning the transport protocols (our
middleware is communicating with hardware devices etc.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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