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Interface Serializer

All Known Subinterfaces:

PofContext

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConfigurablePofContext, NullImplementation.NullPofContext, SafeConfigurablePofContext, SimplePofContext, SimpleSerializer

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.

Since:

Coherence 3.2

Author:

cp/jh 2007.07.21

See Also:

ReadBuffer, WriteBuffer

Method Summary

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, 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,
               Object o)
               throws 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:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs

deserialize

Object deserialize(ReadBuffer.BufferInput in)
                   throws 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:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs