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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Organizing Data Serialization

Meirambek Tungatarov
Meirambek Tungatarov
5,889 Points
Posted by Meirambek Tungatarov
Meirambek Tungatarov
5,889 Points

Can anyone help me ? How did Treets.read(); method find out what file to read/disserialize ?

1st question: in Example class Treets.read(); method how did it figure out what file to read , if Craig didn't pass any parameters ? 2nd one : in Treets class in the load method Craig downcasted the returned by readObject data .How readObject knew what object(array of treets of type Treet) to return , if there was no argument/parameter passed in ? I need your answers !

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Tal Idan
Tal Idan
1,742 Points
Tal Idan
Tal Idan
1,742 Points

1- Okay, so the command was: Treets.save(); going to the Treets class we have a method named save which needs nothing passed into. its like the Interger.parseInt(<STRING>) thing, it refers to the class itself and not a specific object, in the parseInt example it takes a String and returns an int, but i hope you get the idea, it's basically calling a method which is inside another class. 2- About this question Im kind of struggling myself, hopefully someone could answer us both.