10.2.6. Example
Example 10.7, “Saving and Restoring an Object's State” shows a basic
Array class derived from the StateManager class. To illustrate saving and restoring of an object’s state, the highestIndex variable keeps track of the highest element of the array that has a non-zero value.
Example 10.7. Saving and Restoring an Object's State
public class Array extends StateManager
{
public Array ();
public Array (Uid objUid);
public void finalize ( super.terminate(); };
/* Class specific operations. */
public boolean set (int index, int value);
public int get (int index);
/* State management specific operations. */
public boolean save_state (OutputObjectState os, int ObjectType);
public boolean restore_state (InputObjectState os, int ObjectType);
public String type ();
public static final int ARRAY_SIZE = 10;
private int[] elements = new int[ARRAY_SIZE];
private int highestIndex;
};
The
save_state, restore_state and type operations can be defined as follows:
/* Ignore ObjectType parameter for simplicity */
public boolean save_state (OutputObjectState os, int ObjectType)
{
if (!super.save_state(os, ObjectType))
return false;
try
{
packInt(highestIndex);
/*
* Traverse array state that we wish to save. Only save active elements
*/
for (int i = 0; i <= highestIndex; i++)
os.packInt(elements[i]);
return true;
}
catch (IOException e)
{
return false;
}
}
public boolean restore_state (InputObjectState os, int ObjectType)
{
if (!super.restore_state(os, ObjectType))
return false;
try
{
int i = 0;
highestIndex = os.unpackInt();
while (i < ARRAY_SIZE)
{
if (i <= highestIndex)
elements[i] = os.unpackInt();
else
elements[i] = 0;
i++;
}
return true;
}
catch (IOException e)
{
return false;
}
}
public String type ()
{
return '/StateManager/Array';
}