package be.nikiroo.utils.serial;
+import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.NotSerializableException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
-import be.nikiroo.utils.StringUtils;
-
/**
* A simple class to serialise objects to {@link String}.
* <p>
*/
public class Exporter {
private Map<Integer, Object> map;
- private StringBuilder builder;
+ private OutputStream out;
/**
* Create a new {@link Exporter}.
+ *
+ * @param out
+ * export the data to this stream
*/
- public Exporter() {
+ public Exporter(OutputStream out) {
+ if (out == null) {
+ throw new NullPointerException(
+ "Cannot create an be.nikiroo.utils.serials.Exporter that will export to NULL");
+ }
+
+ this.out = out;
map = new HashMap<Integer, Object>();
- builder = new StringBuilder();
}
/**
* if the object cannot be serialised (in this case, the
* {@link Exporter} can contain bad, most probably not
* importable data)
+ * @throws IOException
+ * in case of I/O error
*/
- public Exporter append(Object o) throws NotSerializableException {
- SerialUtils.append(builder, o, map);
+ public Exporter append(Object o) throws NotSerializableException,
+ IOException {
+ SerialUtils.append(out, o, map);
return this;
}
-
- /**
- * Clear the current content.
- */
- public void clear() {
- builder.setLength(0);
- map.clear();
- }
-
- /**
- * The exported items in a serialised form.
- *
- * @param zip
- * TRUE to have zipped content, FALSE to have raw content, NULL
- * to let the system decide
- *
- * @return the items currently in this {@link Exporter}
- */
- public String toString(Boolean zip) {
- if (zip == null) {
- zip = builder.length() > 128;
- }
-
- if (zip) {
- return "ZIP:" + StringUtils.zip64(builder.toString());
- }
-
- return builder.toString();
- }
-
- /**
- * The exported items in a serialised form (possibly zipped).
- *
- * @return the items currently in this {@link Exporter}
- */
- @Override
- public String toString() {
- return toString(null);
- }
}
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