GUI: Cause GUI to be backward-compatible with older versions of saved configuration files

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Data-race detector for windows applications - built on top of DynamoRIO

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GUI: Cause GUI to be backward-compatible with older versions of saved configuration files #76

Closed mhmdkanj closed 4 years ago

mhmdkanj commented 4 years ago

Saved configuration files of older GUI versions might not load in case the GUI was updated [especially when more features that require saving/loading are added or modified]. The issue can be approached by transforming the Data Handler to deal with json files rather than statically serialized data.

fmoessbauer commented 4 years ago

Good catch! As you said, we could just JSON encode the data into a single object and read back the values we know off. Ideally, this would make the config file backward and forward compatible.

mhmdkanj commented 4 years ago

Any additional features that require saving would be added to this json object in the Data Handler as well as the respective updates in Load_Save.

mhmdkanj commented 4 years ago

done in https://github.com/siemens/drace/commit/3fa18eaee1022825e262fa5f4facd73dee6186bb