[antlr-interest] save a tree

[Andy Tripp]

There's gotta be a tool that lets you save a Java object in XML and then 
read
it back in in python. There are lots of tools that save Java objects as XML.
Maybe this thing works: 
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-matters32.html

Andy

Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> Hi Mathew,
>
> Mathew Yeates wrote:
>   
>>  From within a java program I want to save (to disk) the AST I've
>> created. Then I want to read it back into a python program. Anyone have
>> any ideas about the simplest approach to this?
>>     
>
> I'm not aware of any format, package, whatever (something that could
> (de)serialize custom objects cross language) that could help you here - and
> ANTLR does not offer anything here. So you probably have to build your own
> serialization in Java and deserialize in Python - and ANTLR does not offer
> anything here.
> Just walk to AST and dump all info that you need in a easy to parse format
> and read it back in Python building the nodes along the way.
>
> -Ben
>
>   

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