what if object is IExternalizable

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what if object is IExternalizable

iovdin opened this issue 14 years ago · 3 comments

if an object should not be serialized with for in loop, but in a special way
e.g. ObjectProxy from mx.utils. It does not seem currect code counts that case

Answer 1 · 2011-01-08T07:44:42.000Z

It's unclear to me what format an IExternalizable-compatible class should conform to. Is it a string? An array? Since it writes directly to output, I must transform it into proper format for JSON-compatibility but I don't know what that would be. It seems to me that IExternalizable should be ignored as a special format.

I'd like to know your opinion on this, what do you think the best way to handle IExternalizable should be?

Answer 2 · 2011-01-08T09:05:48.000Z

yeah skip is an option, another one is to use writeExternal method of IExternalizable,
so you write to ByteArray and then convert it to a string. Base64 or toString(), not sure a method should be chosen to be easily convertable to ByteArray.

Answer 3 · 2011-01-08T17:03:00.000Z

I'd rather leave that to the user. They can serialize an IExternalizable class before passing it to a JSON encoder. It's also worth mentioning no other JSON library supports IExternalizable that I'm aware of.