Re: Qestion about convert Object to byte[] and convert it back

From:
Wesley Hall <noreply@example.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:11:34 +0000
Message-ID:
<454cbbaf$0$8752$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>
davidxiongcn@gmail.com wrote:

I need to convert an object to String to store it into structure in our
application, so I write some function to convert Object into byte[] and
convert it back. The following is a test program:

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;

public class test {
    private static Object getObjectFromByteArr(byte [] byteArr) throws
java.io.IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
        ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new
ByteArrayInputStream(byteArr));
        Object obj = in.readObject();
        in.close();
        return obj;
    }

    private static byte [] getBlobFromObject(Object obj) throws
java.io.IOException {
        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        ObjectOutputStream objOut = new ObjectOutputStream(out);
        objOut.writeObject(obj);
        byte [] bytes = out.toByteArray();
        objOut.close();
        return bytes;
    }

    public static void main(String [] args) {
        try {
            Integer i = new Integer(0);
            // it's OK here
            Integer j = (Integer)getObjectFromByteArr(getBlobFromObject(i));
            System.out.println(j);
            // try to convert byte[] to String
            String str = new String(getBlobFromObject(i));
            // and convert it back, exception occurs!!!
            Integer k = (Integer)getObjectFromByteArr(str.getBytes());
            System.out.println(k);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

But it always report a java.io.InvalidClassException, as it seems the
serialVersionUID has been changed when I convert it to String. I have
compared the convert result and the result of String.getBytes(), they
are different. But I have no idea about how to fix it.
What's wrong with it when I convert a byte[] to String? I tried to use
a characterset in creating new String, the problem remains.


If you really must do this, then you should run the object byte array
through a Base64 encoder first. The result will be a byte[] that can be
safely converted to 7-bit ASCII for storage as text. Email systems use
this basic mechanism for sending attachments. Jakarta commons codec
contains a Base64 encoder/decoder class, you can find it at
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/

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