[Biojava-l] Serialization of SimpleSequences

[Schreiber, Mark]

Hi -
 
I thought we had fixed that one although it turns out the unit test was a bit inadequate. Generally its not a good idea to make an interface implement serializable as there may be a perfectly valid implementation that can't implement serializable. Probably better to make as many of the implementations as possible serializable. I'll have a look at this.
 
- Mark
 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Vasa Curcin [mailto:vc100 at doc.ic.ac.uk] 
	Sent: Tue 28/10/2003 2:06 p.m. 
	To: biojava-l at biojava.org 
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	Subject: [Biojava-l] Serialization of SimpleSequences
	
	

	Hello,
	
	While transferring some sequences via serialization, I noticed that all
	my Features are getting lost. After some digging around, it seems as if
	Java doesn't serialize the FeatureHolder inside the sequence (I was
	working with SimpleSequence objects). Even though a
	NotSerializableException is not thrown, the FeatureHolder is missing.
	After making the FeatureHolder interface in Biojava extend Serializable,
	the problem disappeared. How much will this change affect the rest of
	the code - ie. is there a good reason why FeatureHolders are not
	serializable?
	
	Cheers,
	Vasa
	
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