Migrating Serialization Changes Within an AIR Application

September 11th, 2008 by Greg Jastrab

I just submitted my entry to the AIR Cookbook for the AIR Cookbook Cook-off.

It solves the problem of having your AIR application store an IExternalizable class on disk but then later adding more fields to that class. How would you read the old version of the class without encountering a runtime error if you tried to read the new field that wasn’t present in the older serialization?

Go check it out the cookbook entry to find out how to do this and please rate the article!

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2 Responses to “Migrating Serialization Changes Within an AIR Application”

Theo says:

September 11, 2008 at 9:30 am

Elegant use of namespaces!
Greg Jastrab says:

September 11, 2008 at 9:33 am

Thanks, I’d guess namespaces are probably the most under-utilized feature of AS3.

Greg Jastrab joined SmartLogic Solutions in June 2006. He is now the Technical Project Manager and oversees all Flash/Flex/AIR development. Follow @gjastrab on twitter

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