Node Grouped Data Marshalling for Object Inheritance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data marshalling methods often require additional properties to indicate class types, which can lead to conflicts with existing property names and result in inefficient data representation, especially when dealing with object-oriented programming languages and inheritance relationships.
Innovation Solution
Node Grouped Data Marshalling groups programming objects by their class types, using key-value pairs where keys represent class types and values represent the object's properties, eliminating the need for an additional inheritance indicator and reducing data size by grouping objects by shared class types.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If an additional property is introduced to indicate class type in marshalled data, then the class type information is preserved, but the data size increases and conflicts with existing property names may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the class type indication with existing property structures by using the first property as a discriminator. Instead of adding a separate inheritance indicator property, the solution combines the class type information with the first existing property, thereby preserving class type information without increasing data size or creating naming conflicts.
2Adaptability or versatility
If an additional property is introduced to indicate class type, then inheritance relationships are represented, but conflicts with existing property names occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the class type indication function with an existing property, eliminating the need for a separate inheritance indicator. This approach maintains inheritance representation capability while avoiding property naming conflicts entirely, as the first existing property serves dual purposes: storing its original data and indicating class type.
3Loss of information
If traditional marshalling with inheritance indicators is used, then class type information is preserved, but the data representation becomes less efficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple functions into the first property: storing the original property value and indicating the class type. This consolidation eliminates redundant data storage while preserving class type information, thereby improving data representation efficiency without sacrificing information完整性.
Solution Approach 2:
The first property is given multi-functionality, serving both as a data container for its original purpose and as a class type indicator. This universal usage of the first property eliminates the need for separate inheritance indicator properties, improving overall data representation efficiency.
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AI summary
Node Grouped Data Marshalling may involve converting programming objects to marshalled data. A marshaller application may determine a class type for each of the programming objects to be marshalled. Two or more of the objects may be of the same class type and may derive from a shared base class. The marshalling application may group of the objects based on the objects' class types. The objects may be marshalled using a set of key-value pairs where keys may identify the class type of an object and where the values may represent the contents of the object and may itself be a set of key-value pairs. A marshalling application may generate a textual representation of the objects such that each grouping of class types is identified by a single key name.