view scripts/general/loadobj.m @ 8212:ebf6f6a0f9a7

Allow saving/loading of classes. Add saveobj and loadobj methods
author David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
date Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:09:13 +0100
parents
children 06094fa570a3
line wrap: on
line source

## Copyright (C) 2008 David Bateman
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
## your option) any later version.
##
## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{b} =} loadobj (@var{a})
## Methof of a class to manipulate an object after loading it tfrom a file. 
## The function @code{loadobj} is called when the object @var{a} is loaded 
## using the @code{load} function. An example of the use of @code{saveobj}
## might be to add fields to an object that don't make sense to be saved.
## For example
##
## @example
## @group
## function b = loadobj (a)
##   b = a;
##   b.addmssingfield = addfield (b;
## endfunction
## @end group
## @end example
##
## @seealso{saveobj, class}
## @end deftypefn

function b = loadobj (a)
  error ("loadobj: not defined for class \"%s\"", class(a));
endfunction