com.opencloud.util

Interface FastSerializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AccessPointName, AccessPointName, AccessPointNameOperatorId, AddressDelimiter, AddressString, ASN1Time, BearerCapability, BearerCapability.ITU_T, CalledPartyBCDNumber, CalledPartyNumber, CallingPartyNumber, CallingPartyRestriction, CallingPartysCategory, CAPIPSSPCapabilities, Cause, CellGlobalId, Code, CUGInterLockCode, DateAndTime, EncodedStringWithIndicators, ExtForwOptions, ForwardCallIndicators, ForwardingOptions, GenericDigits, GenericDigitsWithStarHash, GenericNumber, GenericNumberWithB, GSMSupplementaryServiceList, HighLayerCompatibility, HourMinute, IMEIAddress, IMSIAddress, IntSet, ISDNSubaddress, LegType, LMSIAddress, LocalisedServiceAreaId, LocationAreaId, LocationNumber, MMCode, MSBearerCapability, MSBearerCapability.GSM, MSBearerCapability.GSM.Content, MSBearerCapability.GSM.Content.NonSpeech, MSBearerCapability.GSM.Content.Speech, MSClassmark, MSClassmark.MSClassmark1, MSClassmark.MSClassmark2, NSAPAddress, OriginalCalledNumber, PriceInHundredthsOfUnits, RedirectingPartyNumber, RedirectionInformation, RPCause, SccpAddress, Signal, SMSAddress, SMSCommand, SMSDataCodingScheme, SMSDeliver, SMSDeliverReportAck, SMSDeliverReportError, SMSProtocolId, SMSStatusReport, SMSSubmit, SMSSubmitReportAck, SMSSubmitReportError, SMSTimeStamp, SSCode, StringIndicators, TimeAndTimezone, Treatment, YearMonthDay

public interface FastSerializable

FastSerializable provides an alternative to the Serializable interface where the exact type of the object to be serialized is known at compile time.

Classes implementing FastSerializable should provide a public constructor that takes either:

• a single DataInput argument; or
• a DataInput argument and a ClassLoader argument.

Object state is read from the DataInput stream. The ClassLoader argument, if included, can be used to resolve any application-specific classes stored in the stream. The FastSerialize framework generates code invoking either constructor to build new objects when deserializing. If both constructors are present in a given class then the two-argument constructor is used as first preference.

Some caveats apply to objects implementing FastSerializable:

• the type of object to reconstruct is typically determined at generation time, not run time, so care must be taken that objects are restored using the correct type. Making classes that implement FastSerializable final may be a good idea.
• no handling of shared references to objects is done; if an object is encountered twice during serialization, then two copies of the object will exist upon deserialization.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	toStream(DataOutput stream) Serialize the state of this object to a stream.

Method Detail

toStream

void toStream(DataOutput stream)
              throws IOException

Serialize the state of this object to a stream.

Parameters:

stream - the stream to serialize to.

Throws:

IOException - if an error occurs during serialization