Re: Re: Re: What is serializaton?

FROM : Michael Ash
DATE : Mon Jul 24 23:05:22 2006

On 7/24/06, Corey O'Connor <<email_removed>> wrote:
> On 7/24/06, Jordan Evans <<email_removed>> wrote:
> > That sounds like what NSData does.  Did NSData replace the
> > serialization methods in Cocoa?
>
> No. NSData can be the buffer you serialize an object to, but it is not
> a serialization solution in itself. There may be some helper routines
> but you'll still have to learn how to serialize your objects and
> likely write the serialization code yourself.


Or you can just use NSCoder to do all the heavy lifting for you.

Mike