Java example source code file (BadSubstByReplace.java)

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The BadSubstByReplace.java Java example source code

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/* @test
 * @summary Verify that ClassCastException is thrown when deserializing
 *          an object and one of its object fields is  incompatibly replaced
 *          by either replaceObject/resolveObject.
 *
 */
import java.io.*;

class A implements Serializable {}

class B implements Serializable {}

class Container implements Serializable {
    A a = new A();
}

class ReplacerObjectOutputStream extends ObjectOutputStream {
    static B b = new B();
  public ReplacerObjectOutputStream(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
    super(out);
    enableReplaceObject(true);
  }

  protected Object replaceObject(Object obj) throws IOException {
      if(obj instanceof A) {
          System.err.println("replaceObject(" + obj.toString() + ") with " +
                             b.toString());
          return b;
      } else return obj;
  }
}

public class BadSubstByReplace {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
        Container c = new Container();
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        ReplacerObjectOutputStream out =   new ReplacerObjectOutputStream(baos);
        out.writeObject(c);
        out.close();
        ObjectInputStream in =
            new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray()));
        try {
            c = (Container)in.readObject(); // throws IllegalArgumentException.
            throw new Error("Should have thrown ClassCastException");
        } catch ( ClassCastException e) {
            System.err.println("Caught expected exception " + e.toString());
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            in.close();
        }
    }
}