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Interface Serializer

All Known Subinterfaces:

PofContext

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConfigurablePofContext, DefaultSerializer, NullImplementation.NullPofContext, SafeConfigurablePofContext, SimplePofContext

public interface Serializer

The Serializer interface provides the capability of reading and writing a Java object from and to an in-memory buffer.

Serializer implementations should implement the ClassLoaderAware interface if they need access to a ClassLoader. However, to support hot-deploying containers, it is important that a Serializer not hold any strong references to that ClassLoader, or to any Class objects obtained from that ClassLoader.

Note:<b/> it is extremely important that objects that are equivalent according to their "equals()" implementation produce equivalent serialized streams. Violating this relationship will result in non-deterministic behavior for many Coherence services.

Since:

Coherence 3.2

Author:

cp/jh 2007.07.21

See Also:

ReadBuffer, WriteBuffer

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	deserialize(ReadBuffer.BufferInput in) Deserialize an object from a ReadBuffer by reading its state using the specified BufferInput object.
void	serialize(WriteBuffer.BufferOutput out, java.lang.Object o) Serialize an object to a WriteBuffer by writing its state using the specified BufferOutput object.

Method Detail

serialize

void serialize(WriteBuffer.BufferOutput out,
               java.lang.Object o)
               throws java.io.IOException

Serialize an object to a WriteBuffer by writing its state using the specified BufferOutput object.

Parameters:

out - the BufferOutput with which to write the object's state

o - the object to serialize

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an I/O error occurs

deserialize

java.lang.Object deserialize(ReadBuffer.BufferInput in)
                             throws java.io.IOException

Deserialize an object from a ReadBuffer by reading its state using the specified BufferInput object.

Parameters:

in - the BufferInput with which to read the object's state

Returns:

the deserialized user type instance

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an I/O error occurs

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