or, with a little less arcane stuff:


| myObject rs |
myObject := MethodReference asClassDefinition.
rs _ ReferenceStream on: (RWBinaryOrTextStream on: ByteArray new).
rs nextPut: myObject.
(ReferenceStream on: (ReadStream on: rs contents)) next

Cheers,
Bob

On 9/7/13 1:33 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
> I just noticed 'browse class versions' is still not working with the
> new-and-improved SqueakSource prototype because maybe there's a bug
> with serializing an object to/from a ByteArray with Squeak?
>
> I had wanted to use MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream to serialize to a
> ByteArray, but when I try this:
>
> | ba myObject |
> myObject := MethodReference asClassDefinition.
> ba :=  ((ReferenceStream on: (MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream on: ByteArray new))
>       nextPut: myObject ;
>       yourself) contents.
> (ReferenceStream on: (MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream on: ba)) next
>
> Produces an error:  'The file did not exist in this directory'.   Huh?
>   What file?  What directory?
>
> I've only ever used my own serializer since about 2004, which I think
> is much better but obviously for in-image stuff I have to use
> ReferenceStream.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>

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