org.javagroups.util
Class Marshaller

java.lang.Object
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public class Marshaller

extends java.lang.Object

Title: JavaGroups Communications Description: Contact me at mail@filip.net Copyright: Copyright (c) 2002 Company: www.filip.net

Version:

1.0 This class marshalls classes, in other words it serializes and deserizlizes classes to and from object streams. It performs a magic number matching to decrease the number of bytes that are being sent over the wire. If no magic number is available for the class, the classname is sent over instead

Author:

Filip Hanik, Bela Ban

Constructor Summary

Marshaller()

Method Summary

static java.io.Externalizable	read(java.io.ObjectInput in) reads the magic number, instantiates the class (from the configurator) and invokes the readExternal method on the object.
static void	write(java.io.Externalizable inst, java.io.ObjectOutput out) Writes an object to the ObjectOutput stream.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Marshaller

public Marshaller()

Method Detail

read

public static java.io.Externalizable read(java.io.ObjectInput in)
                                   throws java.io.IOException

reads the magic number, instantiates the class (from the configurator) and invokes the readExternal method on the object. If no magic number is present, the method will read the string and then get the class from the configurator.

Parameters:

in - an ObjectInput stream - the stream should be composed as follows:
[boolean -> int|string -> object data]
If the boolean is true, then the next value is an int, the magic number.
If the boolean is false, then the next value is a string (the class name)
The object data is what the object instance uses to populate its fields

java.io.IOException

write

public static void write(java.io.Externalizable inst,
                         java.io.ObjectOutput out)
                  throws java.io.IOException

Writes an object to the ObjectOutput stream. If possible, we will send over a magic number instead of the class name so that we transfer less amount of data.

Parameters:

inst - - an object instance to be serialized, can not be null

out - - the ObjectOutput stream we will write the serialized data to

java.io.IOException