From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T17:01:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Xml Serialization for Ruby

Hi, all,

> From: NAKAMURA, Hiroshi
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:23 PM

> require 'soap/marshal'
> 
> class Hobbit
>   attr_accessor :name, :friend
> end
> 
> class Hobbits < Array
>   @@typeName = 'Hobbit'
> end
> 
> frodo = Hobbit.new
> frodo.name = 'Frodo'
> peregrin = Hobbit.new
> peregrin.name = 'Peregrin'
> peregrin.friend = frodo
> meriadoc = Hobbit.new
> meriadoc.name = 'Meriadoc'
> meriadoc.friend = frodo

Oops.  What a boring sample.  I intended to add this here;
  frodo.friend = Hobbits[ peregrin, meriadoc ]

> puts SOAP::Marshal.marshal( Hobbits[ frodo, peregrin, meriadoc ] )
> # Sorry, Sam.
> 
> =>

Marshalled string is too long to read for human. :)
Instead of this downside, you can rebuild object graph
from marshalled string.  Cycle, digraph, recursive and
so on.  Try;
  p SOAP::Marshal.unmarshal( dumpedString )

Regards,
// NaHi