Store the objects in an array in a class variable. To delete, just nil the class variable.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:44 PM, jtuc...@objektfabrik.de < jtuc...@objektfabrik.de> wrote: > Sergio, > > I'D say you first need to define what you mean by "persistent" If all you > need is to have them survive a Garbage Collection, you just need to make > sure these objects are referenced by som eother objects. Depending on your > use case, this can be Seaside Sessions, Global variables (probably the > worst idea), TestCase subclasses or even a TestResource. > > If you want to persist them for longer, we are talking about storage of > objects, which is another beast. What comes to mind are options like Fuel, > STON, Json, Voyage/Mongo or Glorp with some Database - the choices are > endless. > > Joachim > > > Am 15.01.15 um 08:32 schrieb p...@highoctane.be: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:06 AM, sergio_101 <sergio....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am building a seaside application, and am in the process of building my >> models and unit tests. >> >> I have a few objects that build up my data by creating objects. >> >> when i run the data creation methods, everything is fine. immediately >> afterward, since these objects to belong to anything, they are cleaned up >> by garbage collection. >> >> > >> is there a way to create these objects so that they persist? >> > > > They should belong to your session if you want them to live for the > session. > > Otherwise, I guess you can put them in a global var to make it available > everywhere, or in > > GRObject>>application, session, or requestContext depending on how long > you want them to live. > > > >> if this is possible, how would you go about deleting such a tenacious >> object? >> > > Session expiry for session vars. The other ones, standard Smalltalk way, > replacing the reference with something else innocuous if you can't get rid > of them the normal gc way. > > Like, x become: String new. (and not x become: nil, which would make nil > become x...) > >> >> thanks! >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Objektfabrik Joachim Tuchel mailto:jtuc...@objektfabrik.de > <jtuc...@objektfabrik.de> > Fliederweg 1 http://www.objektfabrik.de > D-71640 Ludwigsburg http://joachimtuchel.wordpress.com > Telefon: +49 7141 56 10 86 0 Fax: +49 7141 56 10 86 1 > > >
