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The JavaSerializationTest.java Java example source code

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 * Copyright (C) 2012 Google Inc.
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package com.google.gson;

import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import junit.framework.TestCase;

/**
 * Check that Gson doesn't return non-serializable data types.
 *
 * @author Jesse Wilson
 */
public final class JavaSerializationTest extends TestCase {
  private final Gson gson = new Gson();

  public void testMapIsSerializable() throws Exception {
    Type type = new TypeToken<Map() {}.getType();
    Map<String, Integer> map = gson.fromJson("{\"b\":1,\"c\":2,\"a\":3}", type);
    Map<String, Integer> serialized = serializedCopy(map);
    assertEquals(map, serialized);
    // Also check that the iteration order is retained.
    assertEquals(Arrays.asList("b", "c", "a"), new ArrayList<String>(serialized.keySet()));
  }

  public void testListIsSerializable() throws Exception {
    Type type = new TypeToken<List() {}.getType();
    List<String> list = gson.fromJson("[\"a\",\"b\",\"c\"]", type);
    List<String> serialized = serializedCopy(list);
    assertEquals(list, serialized);
  }

  public void testNumberIsSerializable() throws Exception {
    Type type = new TypeToken<List() {}.getType();
    List<Number> list = gson.fromJson("[1,3.14,6.673e-11]", type);
    List<Number> serialized = serializedCopy(list);
    assertEquals(1.0, serialized.get(0).doubleValue());
    assertEquals(3.14, serialized.get(1).doubleValue());
    assertEquals(6.673e-11, serialized.get(2).doubleValue());
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // Serialization promises to return the same type.
  private <T> T serializedCopy(T object) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
    ByteArrayOutputStream bytesOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(bytesOut);
    out.writeObject(object);
    out.close();
    ByteArrayInputStream bytesIn = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytesOut.toByteArray());
    ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(bytesIn);
    return (T) in.readObject();
  }
}