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1   /**
2    * JDBM LICENSE v1.00
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41   *
42   * Copyright 2001 (C) Alex Boisvert. All Rights Reserved.
43   * Contributions are Copyright (C) 2001 by their associated contributors.
44   *
45   */
46  
47  package jdbm.helper;
48  
49  import java.io.IOException;
50  
51  
52  /**
53   * Serializer for byte arrays -- simple returns the byte array itself.  No actual
54   * serialization is performed.
55   *
56   * @author <a href="mailto:boisvert@intalio.com">Alex Boisvert</a>
57   * @version $Id: ByteArraySerializer.java,v 1.1 2003/03/21 02:48:42 boisvert Exp $
58   */
59  public final class ByteArraySerializer
60      implements Serializer
61  {
62  
63      /**
64       * Version id for serialization.
65       */
66      final static long serialVersionUID = 1L;
67  
68  
69      /**
70       * Static instance.
71       */
72      public static final ByteArraySerializer INSTANCE = new ByteArraySerializer();
73      
74      
75      /** 
76       * Serialize the content of an object into a byte array.
77       *
78       * @param obj Object to serialize
79       * @return a byte array representing the object's state
80       *
81       */
82      public byte[] serialize( Object obj ) 
83          throws IOException
84      {
85          return (byte[]) obj;
86      }
87  
88      
89      /**
90       * Deserialize the content of an object from a byte array.
91       *
92       * @param serialized Byte array representation of the object
93       * @return deserialized object
94       *
95       */
96      public Object deserialize( byte[] serialized ) 
97          throws IOException
98      {
99          return serialized;
100     }    
101 
102 }