Forcing different Serialization/Externalization for identical references

[GG]

Hi all,

How would one force a deep reserialization for a collection whose
reference
is already known to be serialized by ObjectOutputStream (without using
custom
mechanisms, of course; in that case there's no question, is there?).

For example, I am trying to serialize a large number (hundreds of
thousands) of rows of a database, that I store as a List. Now, if I do
..clear() and try to serialize again, I would get the same result back
as the first thing I serialized. But if I create a "new" object every
time, I run out of memory pretty fast. Is there a standard way, or
should I roll my own solution?

[Roedy Green]

On 13 Jul 2004 21:29:20 -0700, gr****@alum.mit.edu (GG) wrote or
quoted :

How would one force a deep reserialization for a collection whose
reference
is already known to be serialized by ObjectOutputStream (without using
custom
mechanisms, of course; in that case there's no question, is there?).

see reset method. That makes it forget about all the objects earlier
in the stream.

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