I have a situation where some columns in some tables are BLOBs representing Java serialized objects. Another column specifies the Java type of that serialized object. It would be very nice if I had an easy way to view the deserialized version of those BLOBs.
I'm aware of the fact that SQuirreL has a plugin architecture, but I don't know much about it. Would it be reasonable to consider writing a custom plugin that when executed on a row of a particular table, assuming it was configured to know which column has the BLOB and which column has the type, and a classpath for the associated classes, to essentially run a "ToStringBuilder()" on the object to print out the fields in a dialog?
I imagine this would be quite a bit of work, but is it even possible?
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