Need to make non-serializable object serializable?

[chuq2001]

I'm sending data by way of an ObjectOutputStream, but the object I want to send does not implament Serializable. Can I get it to be Serilaizable?

Thanks
Chuck T.

 

[meadandale]

Nope, not unless you change the class to implement the Serializable interface.

 

[PieterWinter]

Assuming you cannot change the class its implementation, and if you have access to the object's contents from the outside and are able to reconstruct it based on those contents, you could make a helper class that serializes and deserializes the object for you.

This helper class would be serializable, and upon restoring it you would call one of its methods to "reconstruct" the object that you want.

HTH
Pieter

 

[angktwap]

For example:
The Subject is serializable but credential inside is not. how can I go bout doin it?


anyone pls help

angktwap

 

[sedj]

If your class is serializable (in that it implements the Serializable interface, and has a public constructor), yet it contains within it other objects that are not serializable - then you cannot serialize that object.

 

[PieterWinter]

Not unless you can provide "defaults" for the non serializable parts.

 

[angktwap]

Is there another way for me to sent this object to another application?

thanks

 

[sedj]

No. To send objects over the network, you must serialize them into byte code (with perhaps the exception of transforming beans into xml representation - but this wouldn't work in your case).