[Seaside] backing up data with gemstone/s

[Dale K. Henrichs]

Be aware that passivation recurses while traversing data structures so you may need to monkey with your stack size to passivate large data structures ... 

The SIXX code avoids recursion so it doesn't take as much pampering to dump large data structures ...

Dale

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Johan Brichau" <johan at inceptive.be>
| To: "Seaside - general discussion" <seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
| Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:40:41 AM
| Subject: Re: [Seaside] backing up data with gemstone/s
| 
| thanks James!
| 
| Never really noticed this possibility in the manual. Good to know and
| interesting to use.
| 
| On 26 Jun 2013, at 20:23, James Foster <Smalltalk at JGFoster.net>
| wrote:
| 
| > See section 11.4, "Passive Object" on pages 238-39 of
| > http://community.gemstone.com/download/attachments/6816862/GS64-ProgGuide-3.1.pdf?version=1
| > (available from
| > http://community.gemstone.com/display/GSS64/GemStoneS+64+Documentation).
| > The introduction describes the following:
| > 
| > "To archive your data, you can passivate objects themselves to a
| > file. Objects representing your data are stored into a serialized,
| > text-based form by the GemStone class PassiveObject. PassiveObject
| > starts with a root object and traces through its instance
| > variables, and their instance variables, recursively until it
| > reaches special objects (instances of SmallInteger, Character,
| > Boolean, SmallDouble, or UndefinedObject), or classes that can be
| > reduced to special objects (strings and numbers that are not
| > integers), creating a representation of the object that preserves
| > all of the values required to re-create it. The resulting network
| > of object descriptions can be written to a file, stream, or
| > string."
| > 
| > James
| > 
| > On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Johan Brichau <johan at inceptive.be>
| > wrote:
| > 
| >> Hi James,
| >> 
| >> Can you maybe elaborate a bit on this 'passivate' method?
| >> Sounds interesting.
| >> 
| >> thx
| >> Johan
| >> 
| >> On 26 Jun 2013, at 16:38, James Foster <Smalltalk at JGFoster.net>
| >> wrote:
| >> 
| >>> It is also possible to export a subset (using a native method
| >>> called "passivate" or something like SIXX) and import that
| >>> subset into an existing repository.
| >> 
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