From 2ca523263718b705a9578e15cdc42c98f3f68c0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hns <hannesw@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:01:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Increased serialization version to 7. String properties are
 now serialized as objects, because there seems to be a limit around 60000
 chars for UTF.

---
 src/helma/objectmodel/db/Node.java     | 2 +-
 src/helma/objectmodel/db/Property.java | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/helma/objectmodel/db/Node.java b/src/helma/objectmodel/db/Node.java
index 285406d2..4b4d2697 100644
--- a/src/helma/objectmodel/db/Node.java
+++ b/src/helma/objectmodel/db/Node.java
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ public final class Node implements INode, Serializable {
      * Write out this instance to a stream
      */
     private void writeObject (ObjectOutputStream out) throws IOException {
-	out.writeShort (6);  // serialization version
+	out.writeShort (7);  // serialization version
 	out.writeUTF (id);
 	out.writeUTF (name);
 	out.writeObject (parentHandle);
diff --git a/src/helma/objectmodel/db/Property.java b/src/helma/objectmodel/db/Property.java
index 78f3ae0c..b7da69c1 100644
--- a/src/helma/objectmodel/db/Property.java
+++ b/src/helma/objectmodel/db/Property.java
@@ -40,7 +40,11 @@ public final class Property implements IProperty, Serializable, Cloneable {
 	    type = in.readInt ();
 	    switch (type) {
 	    case STRING:
-	        svalue = in.readUTF ();
+	        // try to convert from old format
+	        if (node.version < 7)
+	            svalue = in.readUTF ();
+	        else
+	            svalue = (String) in.readObject ();
 	        break;
 	    case BOOLEAN:
 	        bvalue = in.readBoolean ();
@@ -74,7 +78,7 @@ public final class Property implements IProperty, Serializable, Cloneable {
 	out.writeInt (type);
 	switch (type) {
 	case STRING:
-	    out.writeUTF (svalue);
+	    out.writeObject (svalue);
 	    break;
 	case BOOLEAN:
 	    out.writeBoolean (bvalue);