I need to serial an object and store it on disk. I used Java’s built in and that works fine, as long as the class doesn’t change to much. If I start mucking around with the class it can stop working.
What options are available here? Basically if we have an update I don’t want to break all the user’s data files.
So far I’ve tried serialization to XML (has same problems). Also tried to ‘hand roll’ a config/data file. Basically spit everything out into XML, load it and then create a NEW object based off the config file. This seems to work well, but would take forever to convert everything over to this since it’s a lot of manual work.
Any other options?
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