Hi russ,
I do not if you know but based on Ston I built chrysal
to manage applications configuration:
https://github.com/ducasse/chrysal <https://github.com/ducasse/chrysal>
The basic idea is that you describe the possible fields of your configuration
(i.e. how user can edit JSON files) and
it generates a converter from STON to your pharo objects.
You ship just the converter and its textual description so that you understand
what you did.
But this is probably not what you need but more a textual serializer.
S.
> On 27 Jun 2020, at 16:07, Russ Whaley <whaley.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good morning all from stormy Ohio/USA. Hope everyone is well and sheltering
> effectively from COVID, etc.
>
> I have a STON question. FIrst off, I LOVE STON. It has been the answer to
> my (minimal) persistence needs. I'm writing two different applications, both
> of which I hope to distribute someday, and I struggled with what would work
> to save configurations, templates, status, etc. STON was the answer for me -
> it's very easy to install and simple to use.
>
> But as I add the next feature/function in my code - sort blocks - as soon as
> I tried to save them (a collection of them in an instvar)... I get an error
> on the writeToSTON, and the target file is now corrupt - at the point where
> it tried to write the blocks. I have looked in the documentation and it
> plainly states the version I'm using does not yet address blocks - but I was
> hoping someone out there has developed a workaround, or perhaps has STON been
> updated to handle blocks?
>
> I could make the jump to a more sophisticated storage mechanism (i.e. Fuel?),
> but I'd rather spend my time working on features and figuring out the Spec2
> GUI. :)
>
> Any advice is welcome and appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> Russ
>
> --
> Russ Whaley
> whaley.r...@gmail.com <mailto:whaley.r...@gmail.com>
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