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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:15:37 -0400
From: Marshall Schor <msa@schor.com>
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Subject: Re: XmiCasSerialization,
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Serialization / deserialization is supposed to return the same CAS :-)  (but see
exception below).

The deserialization step *requires* that the CAS you deserialize into, is
previously set up with the proper type system for the types in the serialized form.

The *lenient* flag, if set, disables the error message you would normally get,
if the serialized form has a type in it trying to be deserialized, but the CAS
doesn't have that type defined.  This allows you to deserialize just some subset
of the types in the serialized form - namely those which are defined in the
CAS's type system.

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Please check and confirm that you've set up the CAS you're deserializing into,
with the type system containing all the types that may be in the serialized form.

-Marshall

On 6/15/2011 4:07 PM, Joel Dubbels wrote:
> New user question about serialization.  I would like to serialize my CAS 
> to disk and then later on, with a new program/invocation/whatever, I'd 
> like to deserialize the CAS and work with it.  When I do just normal 
> serialization/deserialization I appear to be losing a lot of types from 
> the typesystem (provided I am doing lenient deserialization), which 
> results in a very empty CAS.  I want exactly the same CAS as what I 
> serialized out..  It looked like I was able to successfully 
> serialize/deserialize when I used an XmiSerializationSharedData object 
> between serialize/deserialize.  However, if I want to do the 
> deserialization in an different program/invocation/whatever from where I 
> did the serialization, how do I preserve the XmiSerializationSharedData 
> object that allows me to pick up all the types that I originally 
> serialized out.   Ie. do I have to somehow preserve/serialize the 
> shareddata object (which seems silly and also not doable because it is not 
> a serializable object).  I'm sure there must be a straightforward way to 
> do this.  Anyone have an answer, or better yet, a good example?  Thanks.
>
> Joel Dubbels
> Watson Solution Development
> Healthcare and Life Sciences Solution Development
> Phone: 507-253-1165
> Internet:dubbels@us.ibm.com