How to put multiple elements into byte[] in java - java

How can I put multiple elements into byte[]? I have the following 3 elements: 1) String data , 2) String status and 3) HashMap<String,String> headers, which need to be passed to setContent(byte[] data) as byte arrays. The following is the code in which I would like to use the previous 3 parameters as input for statusResult.setContent():
public void onSuccess(ClientResponse clientResponse){
String data=clientResponse.getMessage();
String status=String.valueOf(clientResponse.getStatus());
HashMap<String,String> headers=clientResponse.getHeaders();
// Now StatusResult is a class where we need to pass all this data,having only getters and
// setters for Content,so here in the next line i need to pass data,status and headers as
// a byte[] to setContent.
statusResult.setContent(byte[]);
}
Can somebody help me to resolve this out?

This is serialization in a crude way. I would suggest the following:
Create a class encapsulating the three elements.
Make sure that class implements serializable interface.
Use the following code [taken from this post] to create a byte array as you wished, and read the object back from byte array (which, although you have not specified as requirement, but it needs mention for the sake of completeness)
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutput out = null;
try {
//Assuming that bos is the object to be seriaized
out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
out.writeObject(yourObject);
byte[] yourBytes = bos.toByteArray();
...
} finally {
try {
if (out != null) {
out.close();
}
} catch (IOException ex) {
// ignore close exception
}
try {
bos.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
// ignore close exception
}
}
//Create object from bytes:
ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(yourBytes);
ObjectInput in = null;
try {
in = new ObjectInputStream(bis);
Object o = in.readObject();
...
} finally {
try {
bis.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
// ignore close exception
}
try {
if (in != null) {
in.close();
}
} catch (IOException ex) {
// ignore close exception
}
}

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How to retrieve object from key value database into Map, then convert back to object in Java

I am storing an object as a value in LevelDB. Both key and value must be in bytes for LevelDB.
I am receiving an object via a socket and casting it to MyObject:
MyObject myObject = (MyObject) (objectInput.readObject());
Then I am serialising my object when storing the value in LevelDB:
myLevelDb().put(bytes((publicKey)), Serializer.serialize(myObject));
The serializer code is as follows:
public static byte[] serialize(Object object) {
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream out = null;
try {
out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
out.writeObject(object);
out.flush();
byte[] yourBytes = bos.toByteArray();
return yourBytes;
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
bos.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
// ignore close exception
}
} return null;
}
Then I am trying to iterate through the LevelDB and store each object into a Map. Here is where I am trying to deserialize the bytes back into MyObject and save them to Map:
private void iterateBytes() {
DBIterator iterator = myLevelDb().iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
Map.Entry<byte[], byte[]> next = iterator.next();
String keyString = new String(next.getKey());
MyObject myObject = (MyObject) Serializer.deserialize(next.getValue());
Map<String, MyObject> myMap = new HashMap<>();
myMap().put(keyString, myObject);
}
}
However, Java will not let me cast the deserialized bytes back to MyObject after it has been deserialized using the following code:
public static Object deserialize(byte[] bytes) {
ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
ObjectInput in = null;
try {
in = new ObjectInputStream(bis);
Object o = in.readObject();
return o;
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
if (in != null) {
in.close();
}
} catch (IOException ex) {
// ignore close exception
}
} return null;
}
I don't understand why I cannot convert the object back from a byte[] when I have followed the exact same method of serializing and deserializing. MyObject implements Serializable and the SUID is correct, as it works on API calls between devices. I just cannot add it to a Map as the original object, nor will Java let me cast it.
This is the line where an error is thrown, no matter where I try to cast it back to myObject:
MyObject myObject = (MyObject) Serializer.deserialize(next.getValue());
Error:
class java.lang.String cannot be cast to class myPackage.MyObject (java.lang.String is in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap';
This was solved by casting the generic Object object to MyObject (user defined class object) at serialization and also casting it at deserialization.
Here is the code at serialization:
public static byte[] serialize(MyObject myObject) {
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream out = null;
try {
out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
out.writeObject(myObject);
out.flush();
byte[] yourBytes = bos.toByteArray();
return yourBytes;
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
bos.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
// ignore close exception
}
} return null;
}
And here is the code for deserializaion.
public static MyObject deserializeNodeClient(byte[] bytes) {
ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
ObjectInput in = null;
try {
in = new ObjectInputStream(bis);
MyObject myObject = (MyObject) in.readObject();
return myObject;
} catch (IOException | ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
if (in != null) {
in.close();
}
} catch (IOException ex) {
// ignore close exception
}
} return null;
}
So although the original OP code works fine is some cases, the original object cannot be derived by using a generic Object object serialization, then casting the output.

Appendable Binary File

I'm working on appending objects to a binary file. My file is:
File f=new File("person.dat");
I'm getting an error (java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header: 79737200) when I attempt to open the binary file. As far as I can tell the program writes the data just fine, but as soon as I try reading from it, I get the above error. Any help is appreciated!
My Code to write:
AppendObjectOutputStream out = null;
try {
out = new AppendObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(f, true));
out.writeObject(new Student(name, age));
out.flush();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
finally {
out.close();
}
My class for making appendable:
public class AppendObjectOutputStream extends ObjectOutputStream {
public AppendObjectOutputStream(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
super(out);
}
#Override
protected void writeStreamHeader() throws IOException {
reset();
}
}
My partial code for reading and adding objects to an ArrayList:
Course course = new Course();
Student st = null;
ObjectInputStream in = null;
try {
in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream("person.dat"));
try
{
while (true)
{
st = (Student) in.readObject();
course.addAccount(st); //adds student object to an ArrayList in
//class Course
}
}
catch (EOFException ex) {
}
}
catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} finally {
in.close();
}
UPDATE:
Current code to read but its not printing anything to screen:
try(ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(
new BufferedInputStream(Files.newInputStream(f))))
{
while (ois.available() > 0)
{
st = (Student) ois.readObject();
studentlist.addAccount(st);
System.out.println(st.getStudentNumber());
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}
This is how I write to file:
Path f = Paths.get("person.dat");
try (ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(
new BufferedOutputStream(Files.newOutputStream(f, StandardOpenOption.APPEND))))
{
oos.writeObject(new Student(name,age));
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}
Rather than trying to fix your utility classes, I suggest to use the standard classes of the NIO.2 File API.
Try something like (untested):
Path personDataFilePath = Paths.get("person.dat");
// or Java 11:
// Path personDataFilePath = Path.of("person.dat");
try (ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(Files.newOutputStream(personDataFilePath, StandardOpenOption.APPEND)))){
oos.writeObject(new Student(name,age));
} catch (IOException ex) {
// do some error handling here
}
and to read the file, something like (untested):
List<Student> students = new ArrayList<>();
try (ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(Files.newInputStream(personDataFilePath)))){
while (ois.available() > 0){
students.add((Student) ois.readObject());
}
} catch (IOException ex) {
// do some error handling here
}
I have modified the code to work around making a file "appendable". I write a single arraylist object to the file (the arraylist holds a list of student objects). When I want to add a student, I read the object (arraylist) from the file, add my new student to the arraylist and write the arraylist back to the file. It is now working and my file does not have an append format.

Appending to ObjectOutputStream [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Appending to an ObjectOutputStream
(6 answers)
Closed 5 years ago.
I have a program utilizing the memento design pattern and want to save the state of each object into a file using serialization and return the object back. The problem is that I get a "java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid type code: AC" exception due to corrupt headers. I looked at Appending to an ObjectOutputStream and tried to implement the class but still can't get the program to work properly. Multiple objects should be saved in a file and the user passes a string into a function which should match part of the object's string representation.
public class Caretaker implements Serializable {
public void addMemento(Memento m) {
try {
// write object to file
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("ConeOutput1.txt", true);
BufferedOutputStream outputBuffer = new BufferedOutputStream(fos);
AppendableObjectOutputStream objectStream = new AppendableObjectOutputStream(outputBuffer);
objectStream.writeObject(m);
objectStream.reset();
objectStream.close();
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public Memento getMemento(String temp) {
try {
Memento result = null;
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("ConeOutput1.txt");
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
result = (Memento) ois.readObject();
while (result != null) {
Matcher m = Pattern.compile(temp).matcher(result.toString());
if (m.find()) {
return result;
}
else {
result = (Memento) ois.readObject();
}
ois.close();
}
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
}
public class AppendableObjectOutputStream extends ObjectOutputStream {
public AppendableObjectOutputStream(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
super(out);
}
#Override
protected void writeStreamHeader() throws IOException {}
}
You should only use the appending ObjectOutputStream if the file already exists with data in it. If the file is new it needs the object stream header.

Why this strange behaviour of ObjectOutputStream and ObjectInputStream throwing EOFException?

I wrote a custom serializing/de-serializing logic for persisting some of the data as Java default serialization turned out to be both time and memory expensive. For this purpose I wrote readObject(ObjectInput in) and writeObject(ObjectOutput out) methods for the class(es) that needs persisting. However I noticed that if I do not use any out.writeObject(obj) in writeObject(ObjectOutput out) method then it always throws EOFException.
Consider the following example:
Data.java
public class Data implements BaseData {
private String messageUID;
private String rawData;
private String data;
private Long type;
private Boolean processed = false;
private String processedMessage;
private String processedDetaildMessage;
// getter setter
public void readObject(ObjectInput in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
messageUID = in.readUTF();
rawData = in.readUTF();
data = in.readUTF();
type = in.readLong();
processed = in.readBoolean();
if (processed) {
processedMessage = in.readUTF();
processedDetaildMessage = in.readUTF();
}
}
public void writeObject(ObjectOutput out) throws IOException {
out.writeUTF(messageUID);
out.writeUTF(rawData);
out.writeUTF(data);
out.writeLong(type);
out.writeBoolean(processed);
if (processed) {
out.writeUTF(processedMessage);
String tempDetailsMessage[] = processedDetaildMessage.split(" more");
out.writeUTF(tempDetailsMessage[tempDetailsMessage.length - 1]);
}
}
However whenever I use above code the out stream is always missing some information at the end (from processedDetaildMessage field) and I get EOFException while reading it form in, stacktrace below (Data.java line 216 is processedDetaildMessage = in.readUTF());
java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2766)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readUTFChar(ObjectInputStream.java:3158)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readUTFBody(ObjectInputStream.java:3055)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readUTF(ObjectInputStream.java:2864)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readUTF(ObjectInputStream.java:1072)
at com.smartstream.common.Data.readObject(Data.java:216)
at com.smartstream.common.PerformanceTest.getObjectFromBytes(PerformanceTest.java:168)
at com.smartstream.common.PerformanceTest.access$0(PerformanceTest.java:160)
at com.smartstream.common.PerformanceTest$1.mapRow(PerformanceTest.java:119)
at com.smartstream.common.PerformanceTest$1.mapRow(PerformanceTest.java:1)
at org.springframework.jdbc.core.RowMapperResultSetExtractor.extractData(RowMapperResultSetExtractor.java:92)
at org.springframework.jdbc.core.RowMapperResultSetExtractor.extractData(RowMapperResultSetExtractor.java:60)
at org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate$1.doInPreparedStatement(JdbcTemplate.java:651)
at org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.execute(JdbcTemplate.java:589)
at org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:639)
at org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:668)
at org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.query(JdbcTemplate.java:676)
at org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.queryForObject(JdbcTemplate.java:731)
at com.smartstream.common.PerformanceTest.readFromDb(PerformanceTest.java:109)
at com.smartstream.common.PerformanceTest.main(PerformanceTest.java:66)
so I though I would put some extra byte/s of information at the end after writing all required fields and will not read them so that I don't reach end of file while reading. I tried all of these out.writeByte(-1), out.writeInt(-1), out.writeLong(2342343l), out.writeUTF("END_OF_STREAM") but those make no difference. finally I did this out.writeObject(new String("END_OF_STREAM")) and it works fine. Can someone please explain as to why outputstream misses some information if none of the information is written using writeObject() method. Below is how I read and write to/from streams;
private byte[] getObjectAsBytes(Data data) {
byte[] byteArray = null;
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = null;
ObjectOutputStream oos = null;
try {
bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
oos = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
// Use this for java default serialization
// oos.writeObject(data);
data.writeObject(oos);
byteArray = bos.toByteArray();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (oos != null) {
try {
oos.flush();
oos.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
return byteArray;
}
private Data getObjectFromBytes(byte[] byteArray) {
Data data = new Data();
ByteArrayInputStream bais = null;
ObjectInputStream ois = null;
try {
bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray);
ois = new ObjectInputStream(bais);
// Use this for java default serialization
// data = (Data) ois.readObject();
data.readObject(ois);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (ois != null) {
try {
ois.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
return data;
}
If anyone is interested below is what is written in the streams;
persisted data with original code (throws EOFException and missing information) (don't confuse the stacktrace with original issue this stacktrace is persisted as field processedDetailedMessage)
¬í---z-------3507319347632941385----FEEDER-----1437052314954 ---This is a random string---N---þ%J---!this is message of processed dataÛ
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01691: unable to extend lob segment TLM_DBO.SYS_LOB0000076335C00008$$ by 8192 in tablespace WIN_SL_TABLE
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:439)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:395)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.processError(T4C8Oall.java:802)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.receive(T4CTTIfun.java:436)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.doRPC(T4CTTIfun.java:186)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.doOALL(T4C8Oall.java:521)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.doOall8(T4CPreparedStatement.java:205)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.executeForRows(T4CPreparedStatement.java:1008)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1307)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeInternal(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3449)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePre
persisted data after writing extra string at the end using writeObject method
¬í---z-------3507319347632941385----FEEDER-----1437052314954 ---This is a random string---N---þ%J---!this is message of processed dataÛ
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01691: unable to extend lob segment TLM_DBO.SYS_LOB0000076335C00008$$ by 8192 in tablespace WIN_SL_TABLE
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:439)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:395)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.processError(T4C8Oall.java:802)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.receive(T4CTTIfun.java:436)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.doRPC(T4CTTIfun.java:186)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.doOALL(T4C8Oall.java:521)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.doOall8(T4CPreparedStatement.java:205)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.executeForRows(T4CPreparedStatement.java:1008)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1307)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeInternal(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3449)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePrz-----NeparedStatement.execute(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3550)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatementWrapper.execute(OraclePreparedStatementWrapper.java:1374)
at com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.jdbc.WSJdbcPreparedStatement.pmiExecute(WSJdbcPreparedStatement.java:975)
at com.ibm.ws.rsadapter.jdbc.WSJdbcPreparedStatement.execute(WSJdbcPreparedStatement.java:642)
at com.smartstream.control.engine.config.dao.jdbc.ProcessExecutionAuditDetailDao$1.doInPreparedStatement(ProcessExecutionAuditDetailDao.java:115)
at org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.execute(JdbcTemplate.java:586)
... 23t
END_OF_STREAM
PS ---- represents unreadable bytes
Your persisted data is incomplete because you are creating your byte array before flushing the ObjectOutputStream. In getObjectAsBytes(Data) move byteArray = bos.toByteArray(); after the finally block to make it work. Alternatively, the method could be written more succinctly as follows (requires Java 7+):
private byte[] getObjectAsBytes(Data data) {
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
try (ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(bos)) {
data.writeObject(oos);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return bos.toByteArray();
}
I tested both ways in my own program and they both prevent the EOFException from being thrown.
As far as why having a writeObject was working, that's because the underlying writeObject implementation toggles block data mode at the beginning and ending of the method, and changing the block data mode performs a drain which writes all data to the underlying OutputStream, which for a ByteArrayOutputStream is effectively the same as a flush.
This issue is caused because of the different implementations of writeObject method and some other non-generic write* methods i.e. writeUTF. The writeObject method toggles to data block mode at the start and at the end of the method which results all the data being written to underlying OutputStream, this has same affect as calling flush on outputStream. This means that you cannot create another byteArray before flushing the remaining data to the stream. It would be best if you stick with writeObject method for now; ie
public void writeObject(ObjectOutput out) throws IOException {
out.writeUTF(messageUID);
out.writeUTF(rawData);
out.writeUTF(data);
out.writeLong(type);
out.writeBoolean(processed);
if (processed) {
out.writeUTF(processedMessage);
String tempDetailsMessage[] = processedDetaildMessage.split(" more");
out.writeObject(tempDetailsMessage[tempDetailsMessage.length - 1]);
}
}

reading objects from file

I have a problem with reading objects from file Java.
file is anarraylist<projet>
This is the code of saving objects :
try {
FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream("les projets.txt", true);
ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(fileOut);
for (projet a : file) {
out.writeObject(a);
}
out.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
And this is the code of reading objects from file ::
try {
FileInputStream fileIn = new FileInputStream("les projets.txt");
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(fileIn);
while (in.available() > 0){
projet c = (projet) in.readObject();
b.add(c);
}
choisir = new JList(b.toArray());
in.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Writing is working properly. The problem is the reading... it does not read any object (projet) What could be the problem?
As mentioned by EJP in comment and this SO post . if you are planning to write multiple objects in a single file you should write custom ObjectOutputStream , because the while writing second or nth object header information the file will get corrupt.
As suggested by EJP write as ArrayList , since ArrayList is already Serializable you should not have issue. as
out.writeObject(file) and read it back as ArrayList b = (ArrayList) in.readObject();
for some reason if you cant write it as ArrayList. create custome ObjectOutStream as
class MyObjectOutputStream extends ObjectOutputStream {
public MyObjectOutputStream(OutputStream os) throws IOException {
super(os);
}
#Override
protected void writeStreamHeader() {}
}
and change your writeObject as
try {
FileOutputStream fileOut= new FileOutputStream("les_projets.txt",true);
MyObjectOutputStream out = new MyObjectOutputStream(fileOut );
for (projet a : file) {
out.writeObject(a);
}
out.close();
}
catch(Exception e)
{e.printStackTrace();
}
and change your readObject as
ObjectInputStream in = null;
try {
FileInputStream fileIn = new FileInputStream("C:\\temp\\les_projets1.txt");
in = new ObjectInputStream(fileIn );
while(true) {
try{
projet c = (projet) in.readObject();
b.add(c);
}catch(EOFException ex){
// end of file case
break;
}
}
}catch (Exception ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}finally{
try {
in.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

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