On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Kyle R. Burton<kyle.bur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there a way to do binary serialization of Clojure/Java values? >> ASCII (read) and (write) are nice, but they are wasting space, >> truncating floats and are probably slow compared to binary >> serialization. > > The following utility functions have worked in many cases for me: > > (defn object->file [obj file] > (with-open [outp (java.io.ObjectOutputStream. > (java.io.FileOutputStream. file))] > (.writeObject outp obj))) > > > (defn file->object [file] > (with-open [inp (java.io.ObjectInputStream. (java.io.FileInputStream. file))] > (.readObject inp))) > > (defn freeze > ([obj] > (with-open [baos (java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream. 1024) > oos (java.io.ObjectOutputStream. baos)] > (.writeObject oos obj) > (.toByteArray baos))) > ([obj & objs] > (freeze (vec (cons obj objs)))))
Sorry, forgot to offer up the inverse of freeze, thaw: (defn thaw [bytes] (with-open [bais (java.io.ByteArrayInputStream. bytes) ois (java.io.ObjectInputStream. bais)] (.readObject ois))) Regards, Kyle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---