From: Alex Polite <notmyprivateemail@...>
Date: 2006-05-27T04:24:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshaling NArray objects.

On 5/25/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> are you sure need it?

yeah. I'm marshaling objects that have narrays as a component among others.
>
>      harp:~ > cat a.rb
>      require 'narray'
>
>      class NArray
>        def _dump *ignored
>          Marshal.dump :typecode => typecode, :shape => shape, :data => to_s
>        end
>        def self._load buf
>          h = Marshal.load buf
>          typecode = h[:typecode]
>          shape = h[:shape]
>          data = h[:data]
>          to_na data, typecode, *shape
>        end
>      end
>

Thanks a bunch. That did the trick. Just one more thing. When I load a
marshalled object I can access the attributes on that object but I can
call it's methods. This is from irb. I've googled for stuff like
"marshaling methods" to no avail.

Alex






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