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041 *
042 * Copyright 2001 (C) Alex Boisvert. All Rights Reserved.
043 * Contributions are Copyright (C) 2001 by their associated contributors.
044 *
045 */
046
047 package jdbm.helper;
048
049 import java.io.IOException;
050
051
052 /**
053 * Serializer for byte arrays -- simple returns the byte array itself. No actual
054 * serialization is performed.
055 *
056 * @author <a href="mailto:boisvert@intalio.com">Alex Boisvert</a>
057 * @version $Id: ByteArraySerializer.java,v 1.1 2003/03/21 02:48:42 boisvert Exp $
058 */
059 public final class ByteArraySerializer
060 implements Serializer
061 {
062
063 /**
064 * Version id for serialization.
065 */
066 final static long serialVersionUID = 1L;
067
068
069 /**
070 * Static instance.
071 */
072 public static final ByteArraySerializer INSTANCE = new ByteArraySerializer();
073
074
075 /**
076 * Serialize the content of an object into a byte array.
077 *
078 * @param obj Object to serialize
079 * @return a byte array representing the object's state
080 *
081 */
082 public byte[] serialize( Object obj )
083 throws IOException
084 {
085 return (byte[]) obj;
086 }
087
088
089 /**
090 * Deserialize the content of an object from a byte array.
091 *
092 * @param serialized Byte array representation of the object
093 * @return deserialized object
094 *
095 */
096 public Object deserialize( byte[] serialized )
097 throws IOException
098 {
099 return serialized;
100 }
101
102 }