Package org.jgroups.util
Class Marshaller
java.lang.Object
org.jgroups.util.Marshaller
Title: JGroups Communications
Description: Contact me at mail@filip.net
Copyright: Copyright (c) 2002
Company: www.filip.net
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- 1.0 This class marshalls classes, in other words it serializes and deserializes 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
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Constructor Summary
Constructors -
Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionstatic Externalizable
read
(ObjectInput in) reads the magic number, instantiates the class (from the configurator) and invokes the readExternal method on the object.static void
write
(Externalizable inst, ObjectOutput out) Writes an object to the ObjectOutput stream.
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Constructor Details
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Marshaller
public Marshaller()
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Method Details
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read
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- Throws:
IOException
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write
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 nullout
- - the ObjectOutput stream we will write the serialized data to- Throws:
IOException
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