Re: [elephant-devel] Mirroring classes from 3rd party packages.

2009-01-08 Thread Ian Eslick
Yes, serialization is recursive and keeps track of references so it deals with circular and lattice-like references. This is all serialized into a single buffer, but for moderately sized, self- contained trees you're probably OK. Remember that when you load that value back in it serializes

[elephant-devel] Mirroring classes from 3rd party packages.

2009-01-08 Thread Yarek Kowalik
I have a dilemma deciding on the structure on persiting data. I need your advice on. I'm relying on a third party package (Amazon-ECS) that helps me parse Amazon XML data feed, with the result that the XML is translated into a set of nested CLOS objects (all classes use metaclass ELEMENT-CLASS).