SmartRefStream broken?

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Nov 14 22:02:00 UTC 2006


Benjamin Pollack wrote:
> Is there a reason why SmartRefStream has such a radically different 
> interface than ReferenceStream, even though it's a direct subclass?

Yes. The reason is that you shouldn't use SmartRefStream the way you're 
using it. The "correct" way is using #fileOutClass:andObject: like here:

Writing:
   file := FileStream newFileNamed: 'data.obj'.
   file fileOutClass: nil "no class" andObject: data.

Reading:
   file := FileStream readOnlyFileNamed: 'data.obj'.
   data := file fileInObjectAndCode.

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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