Help regarding saving the Graph object state in a file.

[Ravi Prakash <cs14mtech11013 AT iith.ac.in>]

Dear GraphStream Team,

Warm Greeting!.

I am using GraphStream Library in one of my java projects , where I have a requirement of storing(serializing) the Graph object generated for later use.

I create graph using SingleGraph(). I have tried GSON as well as readObject and writeObject technique of serialising and deserealiszing the java objects. But didn't got any success :(.

following is the code snippet :

public class SerializablePerson implements Serializable  

{  

   private String lastName;  

   SingleGraph graph;

  

      SerializablePerson()

       {

                this.graph = new SingleGraph();

                Generator gen = new WattsStrogatzGenerator(10,2,.5);

gen.addSink(graph);

gen.begin();

while(gen.nextEvents()) {}

//graph.display(false);

gen.end();

        }

...

....

}

when I try to serialize above field lastName gets serialized properly but graph isn't.

I am stuck.  I will appreciate any help from your end.

An alternate solution where i won't be needing to serialize my graph object is , if i can somehow get same graph every time  i generate a graph  using :

Generator gen = new WattsStrogatzGenerator(10,2,.5);

but unfortunately the above snippet generates random graphs as obvious. Is there any alternative to achieve the same.

Regards,

Ravi Prakash