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Put an myObject to ObjectInputStream without using ObjectOutputStream

I want to put an object in an ObjectInputStream. I wrote the following code to write the object to an ObjectOuputStream and saved it in "myObjectFile". Then read "myObjectFile" to get an ObjectInputStream:
val oos = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("myObjectFile"))
oos.writeObject(myObject);
oos.close();
val ois = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream("myObjectFile"))
:
ois.close();
Is it possible to create an ObjectInputStream for myObject directly without writing an intermediate "myObjectFile"?
I also tried the following:
val baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream
val oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos)
oos.writeObject(myObject);
oos.flush();
oos.close();
val is = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray())
val ois = new ObjectInputStream(is)
println(" baos size = " + baos.size())
println(" ois size = " + IOUtils.toByteArray(ois).length)
But I got:
baos size = 369
ois size = 0
Why the ois size is 0? What did I do wrong? Thanks!

Object Deserialization- to get back int array from serialized Object

int[] myIntArray;
ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(1024);
ObjectOutputStream objectOutputStream = new ObjectOutputStream(new DeflaterOutputStream(byteArrayOutputStream));
objectOutputStream.writeObject(myIntArray);
Now,ObjectOutputStream takes The object and directly serializes it. DeflaterOutputStream compresses the serialized result, then the compressed result is stored in a ByteArrayOutputStream
Can Someone tell me How to Deserialize and get back my original int array back?
Plz Share the coding?

objectOutputStream.close();
byte[] serialized = byteArrayOutputStream.getBytes();
// and then read back using symmetric constructs as when writing, but using
// input streams instead of output streams:
ByteArrayInputStream byteArrayInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(serialized);
ObjectInputStream objectInputStream =
new ObjectInputStream(new InflaterInputStream(byteArrayInputStream));
int[] myDesererializedIntArray = (int[]) objectInputStream.readObject();

Convert android.graphics.Path object to byte[] and back

I'm trying to convert an android.graphics.Path object to byte[] so that I could store it in a blob storage in SQLite, also to convert it back.
So far I don't even know where to begin...
Thanks to anyone willing to help.

As Path extends Object, you can use something like this:
ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream objectOutputStream = new ObjectOutputStream(outputStream);
objectOutputStream.writeObject(path);
byte[] array = outputStream.toByteArray();

Serialize your object and upload that file .
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
ObjectOutput out = new ObjectOutputStream(baos);
out.writeObject(android.graphics.Path);
out.close()
byte[] buf = bos.toByteArray(); //byte array
to recover that object use deserialization
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(buf));
class_name recover =(clas_name) in.readObject();
in.close();
return object;

StreamCorruptedException when de-serializing through ObjectInputStream

I am trying to test a program and for that I need to access ReadExternal function but I am getting StreamCorrupted exception on ObjectInputStream.
I know I need to use the object written by WriteObject but dont know how to do it...
ObjectOutputStream out=new ObjectOutputStream(new ByteArrayOutputStream());
out.writeObject(ss3);
ss3.writeExternal(out);
try{
ByteInputStream bi=new ByteInputStream();
bi.setBuf(bb);
out.write(bb);
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bb));
String s1=(String) in.readObject();
}
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}

Apparently, you are trying to write the same object twice to the output stream:
out.writeObject(ss3);
ss3.writeExternal(out); // <-- Remove this!
The second write makes wrong use of the writeExternal() method, which should never be called explicitly but will be called by the ObjectOutputStream.
And: out.write(bb); tries to write the content of bb to the ObjectOutputStream. That's probably not what you want.
Try it like this:
// Create a buffer for the data generated:
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream out=new ObjectOutputStream( bos );
out.writeObject(ss3);
// This makes sure the stream is written completely ('flushed'):
out.close();
// Retrieve the raw data written through the ObjectOutputStream:
byte[] data = bos.toByteArray();
// Wrap the raw data in an ObjectInputStream to read from:
ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream( data );
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream( bis );
// Read object(s) re-created from the raw data:
SomeClass obj = (SomeClass) in.readObject();
assert obj.equals( ss3 ); // optional ;-)

ss3.writeExternal(out);
You shouldn't be calling that method directly. You should be calling
out.writeObject(ss3);

Serialize object with outputstream

Suppose I have an OutputStream (and not an ObjectOutputStream). Is is possible to send a serialized object using the write method? Thanks!

Here is what you do to serialize the object:
new ObjectOutputStream(outputStream).writeObject(obj);
If you want to control the byte[] output:
ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(buffer);
oos.writeObject(obj);
oos.close();
byte[] rawData = buffer.toByteArray();

You could use ObjectOutputStream to 'capture' the objects data in a byte Array and send this to the OutputStream.
String s = "test";
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream( baos );
oos.writeObject( s );
byte[] byteArray = baos.toByteArray();
for ( byte b : byteArray ) {
System.out.print( (char) b );
}
Another non generic option would be to serialize the object in a string representation e.g. CSV

This is trivial: you can simply wrap your original OutputStream in a new ObjectOutputStream, and then use the specialized methods of ObjectOutputStream:
OutputStream myOriginalOutputStream = ...;
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(myOriginalOutputStream);
oos.writeObject(new MyObject());
oos.flush();
oos.close();
Internally, ObjectOutputStream will call the underlying OutputStream's write() method.

You must have to use ObjectOutputStream class and its methods to *serialize* objects. In fact ObjectOutputStream is a sub-class of java.io.OutputStream (It is an abstract super class of byte-oriented streams). Take a look at an article on Java Serialization API.
EDIT:
You can use XMLEncoder
(from the Doc : The XMLEncoder class is a complementary alternative to
the ObjectOutputStream and can used to generate a textual
representation of a JavaBean in the same way that the
ObjectOutputStream can be used to create binary representation of
Serializable objects)