kaapo.filemanager
Class ObjectSerializer

java.lang.Object
  kaapo.filemanager.ObjectSerializer

public class ObjectSerializer
extends Object

A reusable class to simplify object serialization to disk. Has methods for writing any serializable objects to a file and reading them back.

Author:

paltamaa

Constructor Summary

ObjectSerializer()
Constructs a new ObjectSerializer.

Method Summary

Object	read(File file) Reads an object from a file.
void	write(Object object, File file) Writes an object to a file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ObjectSerializer

public ObjectSerializer()

Constructs a new ObjectSerializer.

Method Detail

read

public Object read(File file)
            throws IOException,
                   ClassNotFoundException

Reads an object from a file.

Parameters:

file - the file to be opened for reading

Returns:

object from the file

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs

ClassNotFoundException

write

public void write(Object object,
                  File file)
           throws IOException

Writes an object to a file.

Parameters:

object - the object to save

file - the file to be opened for writing

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs