> On 17 May 2017, at 16:15, Cyril Ferlicot D. <cyril.ferli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 17/05/2017 16:02, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: >> >> OK, that is an understandable example. >> >> But why exactly do you want Currency to be serialised differently ? You >> don't want too many instances ? You want all instances to be #== ? Is >> Currency too big ? You want to allow humans to edit the STON file ? What ? >> Why ? >> >> You can easily make it Currency['Euro'] or even Currency[#Euro] like it is >> already done for a number of built-in classes. >> >> The last example that I gave solved the 'too many instances', make them #== >> issue. >> >> If it is size, that got covered too, but you must solve the problem of how >> the receiving end will resolve the reference then. >> >> But since that is all no good, there must still be another requirement. > > Here it is a simple example to show what I want. > > The real use case is that in Moose, entities are really connected to > their model, and if one of our classes contains an entity it would > produce a really really really big ston file since it would export > millions of entities. > > But there is a way to retrieve an entity of this model from its moose name. > > Thus, I would like to export only the moose name of the entities, then > get the corresponding entity from a Model the user would have load > before during the ston reading.
OK. So there is some existing method that gives you the entity given its name ? MooseEntity class>>fromEntityName: 'mooseEntityName' Right ? So why can't you use the example that I gave you earlier, replace the UUID string with the mooseEntityName string, and call the above method instead of the #fromId: in my example ? In STON, you will then see MooseEntity['mooseEntityName'] as value. >> >> > > > -- > Cyril Ferlicot > https://ferlicot.fr > > http://www.synectique.eu > 2 rue Jacques Prévert 01, > 59650 Villeneuve d'ascq France
