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OOP
Inheritance

Implement and use an Interface

Create a Serializable interface consisting of 'save' and 'restore' methods, each of which:

* Accept a stream or handle or descriptor argument for the source or destination
* Save to destination or restore from source the properties or data members of the implementing class (restrict yourself to the primitive types 'int' and 'string')

Next, create a Person class which has 'name' and 'age' properties or data members and implements this interface. Instantiate a Person object, save it to a serial stream, and instantiate a new Person object by restoring it from the serial stream.
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python 2.6
import pickle

class Person:
def __init__(self, name, age):
self.name = name
self.age = age
def __str__(self):
return "Name: {name}, age: {age}".format(name=self.name, age=self.age)


person = Person("Gaylord Focker", 21)
with open("person.pickle", "wb") as outstream:
pickle.dump(person, outstream)
with open("person.pickle", "rb") as instream:
deserialized_person = pickle.load(instream)
print(deserialized_person)
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java 1.3 and above
// Serialization to a file
class Person implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private String name;
private int age;
public void setAge(int age) {
this.age = age;
}
public int getAge() {
return age;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
if(obj == this) return true;
if(obj instanceof Person) {
Person p = (Person) obj;
return (p.getName().equals(this.getName())
& p.getAge() == this.getAge());
}
return false;
}
public String toString() {
return "Name: " + name + ", age: " + age;
}
}
Person person = new Person();
person.setName("Gaylord Focker");
person.setAge(21);

try {
File file = new File("ser.obj");
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
oos.writeObject(person);
oos.close();
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
Person deserializedPerson = (Person) ois.readObject();
ois.close();
System.out.println(deserializedPerson);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

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