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

From:
Thomas Hawtin <usenet@tackline.plus.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:46:05 +0000
Message-ID:
<454c9966$0$8723$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:


Why do you want to convert it to a String? That's nuts.

         ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        ObjectOutputStream objOut = new ObjectOutputStream(out);
        objOut.writeObject(obj);
        byte [] bytes = out.toByteArray();

This converts the *current* received output to a byte[].

         objOut.close();

This *flushes* unwritten data to the output stream.

             // try to convert byte[] to String
            String str = new String(getBlobFromObject(i));
            // and convert it back, exception occurs!!!
            Integer k = (Integer)getObjectFromByteArr(str.getBytes());

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.


Works for me, but then perhaps you have a different default character
set. I'm using ISO8859-15; perhaps you are using a Microsoft proprietary
character set. Look at the API docs for the methods you have used. (I
think methods implicitly using the default character set or locale
should be deprecated.)

You could use String(byte[],int) and
String.getBytes(int,int,byte[],int), but they are deprecated for good
reason.

Tom hawtin

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