Serialisation utilities update
[nikiroo-utils.git] / src / be / nikiroo / utils / serial / SerialUtils.java
index 3770c588ce53bc25e77b623ee715da6aa58b937e..49817b250f4f170f3547e62355fa3a7b7b4023c3 100644 (file)
@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
 package be.nikiroo.utils.serial;
 
-import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
-import java.lang.reflect.Field;
-import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.io.NotSerializableException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 /**
- * Small class to help serialise/deserialise objects.
+ * Small class to help with serialisation.
  * <p>
  * Note that we do not support inner classes (but we do support nested classes)
  * and all objects require an empty constructor to be deserialised.
@@ -21,9 +19,9 @@ public class SerialUtils {
 
        static {
                customTypes = new HashMap<String, CustomSerializer>();
-               // TODO: add "default" custom serialisers
+               // TODO: add "default" custom serialisers if any (Bitmap?)
        }
-       
+
        /**
         * Create an empty object of the given type.
         * 
@@ -32,18 +30,16 @@ public class SerialUtils {
         * 
         * @return the new object
         * 
-        * @throws NoSuchMethodException  if the given class is not compatible with this code
-        * @throws ClassNotFoundException if the class cannot be found or created
+        * @throws ClassNotFoundException
+        *             if the class cannot be found
+        * @throws NoSuchMethodException
+        *             if the given class is not compatible with this code
         */
-       public static Object createObject(String type) throws NoSuchMethodException,
-                       ClassNotFoundException {
+       public static Object createObject(String type)
+                       throws ClassNotFoundException, NoSuchMethodException {
 
                try {
                        Class<?> clazz = getClass(type);
-                       if (clazz == null) {
-                               throw new ClassNotFoundException("Class not found: " + type);
-                       }
-
                        String className = clazz.getName();
                        Object[] args = null;
                        Constructor<?> ctor = null;
@@ -60,25 +56,47 @@ public class SerialUtils {
 
                        ctor.setAccessible(true);
                        return ctor.newInstance(args);
+               } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                       throw e;
                } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
-                       throw new NoSuchMethodException(
-                                       String.format(
-                                                       "Objects of type \"%s\" cannot be created by this code: maybe the class"
-                                                                       + " or its enclosing class doesn't have an empty constructor?",
-                                                       type));
-
+                       throw e;
+               } catch (Exception e) {
+                       throw new NoSuchMethodException("Cannot instantiate: " + type);
                }
-               catch (SecurityException e) { throw new ClassNotFoundException("Cannot instantiate: " + type, e); }
-               catch (InstantiationException e) { throw new ClassNotFoundException("Cannot instantiate: " + type, e); }
-               catch (IllegalAccessException e) { throw new ClassNotFoundException("Cannot instantiate: " + type, e); }
-               catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { throw new ClassNotFoundException("Cannot instantiate: " + type, e); }
-               catch (InvocationTargetException e) { throw new ClassNotFoundException("Cannot instantiate: " + type, e); }
        }
 
+       /**
+        * Insert a custom serialiser that will take precedence over the default one
+        * or the target class.
+        * 
+        * @param serializer
+        *            the custom serialiser
+        */
        static public void addCustomSerializer(CustomSerializer serializer) {
                customTypes.put(serializer.getType(), serializer);
        }
 
+       /**
+        * Serialise the given object into this {@link StringBuilder}.
+        * <p>
+        * <b>Important: </b>If the operation fails (with a
+        * {@link NotSerializableException}), the {@link StringBuilder} will be
+        * corrupted (will contain bad, most probably not importable data).
+        * 
+        * @param builder
+        *            the output {@link StringBuilder} to serialise to
+        * @param o
+        *            the object to serialise
+        * @param map
+        *            the map of already serialised objects (if the given object or
+        *            one of its descendant is already present in it, only an ID
+        *            will be serialised)
+        * 
+        * @throws NotSerializableException
+        *             if the object cannot be serialised (in this case, the
+        *             {@link StringBuilder} can contain bad, most probably not
+        *             importable data)
+        */
        static void append(StringBuilder builder, Object o, Map<Integer, Object> map)
                        throws NotSerializableException {
 
@@ -206,9 +224,24 @@ public class SerialUtils {
                        return Integer.parseInt(encodedValue);
                }
        }
-       
-       static private Class<?> getClass(String type) throws ClassNotFoundException,
-                       NoSuchMethodException {
+
+       /**
+        * Return the corresponding class or throw an {@link Exception} if it
+        * cannot.
+        * 
+        * @param type
+        *            the class name to look for
+        * 
+        * @return the class (will never be NULL)
+        * 
+        * @throws ClassNotFoundException
+        *             if the class cannot be found
+        * @throws NoSuchMethodException
+        *             if the class cannot be created (usually because it or its
+        *             enclosing class doesn't have an empty constructor)
+        */
+       static private Class<?> getClass(String type)
+                       throws ClassNotFoundException, NoSuchMethodException {
                Class<?> clazz = null;
                try {
                        clazz = Class.forName(type);
@@ -235,9 +268,13 @@ public class SerialUtils {
                        }
                }
 
+               if (clazz == null) {
+                       throw new ClassNotFoundException("Class not found: " + type);
+               }
+
                return clazz;
        }
-       
+
        // aa bb -> "aa\tbb"
        private static void encodeString(StringBuilder builder, String raw) {
                builder.append('\"');