Java example source code file (Platform.java)

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The Platform.java Java example source code

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2007 The Guava Authors
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package com.google.common.testing;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;

import com.google.common.annotations.GwtCompatible;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;

/**
 * Methods factored out so that they can be emulated differently in GWT.
 *
 * @author Chris Povirk
 */
@GwtCompatible(emulated = true)
final class Platform {
  /**
   * Serializes and deserializes the specified object.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  static <T> T reserialize(T object) {
    checkNotNull(object);
    ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    try {
      ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(bytes);
      out.writeObject(object);
      ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(
          new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes.toByteArray()));
      return (T) in.readObject();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }

  private Platform() {}
}