org.strutsme.common.serialization
Class Serializer

java.lang.Object
  org.strutsme.common.serialization.Serializer

public final class Serializer
extends java.lang.Object

The Serializer class transforms an object graph into a string and the other way around. The object graph can consists of the following classes:

• Vector
• SafeHashtable
• SerializationBase
• Date
• wrapper classes for the primitive types like Integer

Serializer supports cyclic objects graph and also null values.

The SerializerMapper can be used to transform (on the fly) any object into an object of class SerializationBase. This allows to serialize an arbitrary object graph without changing the graph or the classes it consists of.

Version:

$Date$

Author:

rfalke

Method Summary

static java.lang.Object	deserialize(java.lang.String s) Creates the object graph from the given string.
static java.lang.String	serialize(java.lang.Object o) Transforms the object graph into a string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

deserialize

public static java.lang.Object deserialize(java.lang.String s)
                                    throws SerializationException

Creates the object graph from the given string.

Parameters:

s - the serialized string

Returns:

the object graph

Throws:

SerializationException - if the parameter is malformed, the objects could not be instantiated or in other error cases.

serialize

public static java.lang.String serialize(java.lang.Object o)
                                  throws SerializationException

Transforms the object graph into a string.

Parameters:

o - one node in the object graph which will be used to discover the remaining graph

Returns:

the serialized string

Throws:

SerializationException - if the parameter is malformed, the objects could not be instantiated or in other error cases.