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Re: out of sheer curiosity... [message #177566 is a reply to message #177562] Tue, 10 April 2012 00:25 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/9/2012 6:27 PM, Scott Johnson wrote:
> On 4/9/2012 2:03 PM, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
>> Scott Johnson schrieb:
>>
>>> What would be the reason to serialize an object other then to save it
>>> for later use, and at the time I can't really come up with a reason
>>> for that in my mind (lack of experience in this area I suppose)
>>
>> True, this seems to be the most common use case: Make the object persist
>> between different HTTP requests.
>>

Scotty, please see my reply to Thomas. Only the state persists between
requests. The behavior doesn't. This is a huge difference.

>>> Now if you are saving it for later use then the original object would
>>> no longer exist and the external resources as Jerry explained would no
>>> longer be available if not for the constructor.
>>
>> The point is that an unserialized object would usually be in a different
>> state than a "fresh" object created using the `new` operator and thus
>> require different initialization tasks to be performed. That's why
>> different magic methods exist:
>>
>> __construct(): Object is "fresh", created using `new`
>> __clone(): Object was copied from another object
>> __wakeup(): Object was unserialized
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Thomas
>>
> OK I see.
>
> I had not even thought about the need for creating the object from
> either new or from a copied version.
>

Actually, both are quite common in true OO languages such as C++, Java
or Smalltalk.

> Thanks for squeezing my brain.
>
> Scotty


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