Re: Propertylist serialization (MacOSX <--> GNUstep)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 11:48  pm, Andreas Hoeschler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am porting some code from MacOSX to GNUstep. In a client server 
> setup the server process is supposed to run on a GNUstep box, the 
> client process on MacOSX. We have implemented our own DO that converts 
> propertyLists to NSData and vice versa using NSSerializer and 
> NSDeserializer.
>
> This works from MacOSX to MacOSX but not from MacOSX to GNUstep. I 
> have tracked down the problem to the point where the GNUstep server 
> tries to deserialize a serialzed propertyList from the client and 
> fails (--> nil). Obviously the serialization formats are not 
> compatible.
>
> Is there a known solution for this problem? How do people serialize in 
> a heterogen OS environment?

You can save the property-list as a string representation and use 
[NSString-propertyList] to deserialise it.