/**
* Populates all fields according to the string values.
*/
public function deserializeFromString($obj_str)
{
if (!$obj_str or strlen($obj_str) == 0) {
// no string to deserialize fomr
return;
}
$name_value_pairs = explode(myBaseObject::FIELD_SEPARATOR, $obj_str);
foreach ($name_value_pairs as $pair) {
$tokens = explode(myBaseObject::FIELD_EQUAL, $pair);
$tok_count = count($tokens);
if ($tok_count == 0) {
continue;
} elseif ($tok_count == 1) {
$name = $tokens[0];
$value = NULL;
} elseif ($tok_count == 2) {
$name = $tokens[0];
$value = $tokens[1];
} else {
throw Exception("encode/decode didn't work well - there are '=' characters within the name or the value of a serialized field");
}
// echo $name . "=" . $value ."<br>";
// first token is the name of the field, second token is the value
$this->setByName($name, myBaseObject::decode($value));
}
}
