Thinker *Thinker::Unserialize(LArchive &a)
{
unsigned id;
a << id;
void *v = NULL;
if (a.GetPtr(id, v))
return static_cast<Thinker*>(v); // already unserialized, just return the appropriate pointer
// not unserialized yet, so let's do it now:
unsigned type;
a << type;
TypeInfo *t = TypeInfo::Find(type);
if (!t)
{
return NULL; // TODO: How to handle errors? using exceptions?
}
Thinker *p = t->factory();
a.SetPtr(id, p); // order is important: consider the case a -> b -> a, where -> is a pointer
p->mp = a.active_map; // a small kludge, some Marshal functions need to have a valid Map*
p->Marshal(a);
return p;
}
