add utility class to test serializable classes

Closed the ByteArrayXxxStreams.
Closed byte output stream, even if exception in object stream.

Change-Id: I3f779a5c0e6df3ac3496abe60a46e0696b4e261c
Issue-ID: POLICY-1106
Signed-off-by: Jim Hahn <jrh3@att.com>

1 files changed, 89 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utils-test/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/common/utils/io/Serializer.java b/utils-test/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/common/utils/io/Serializer.java
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+/*
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP Policy Engine - Common Modules
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.policy.common.utils.io;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
+import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
+
+/**
+ * Utilities for testing serialization and de-serialization of objects.
+ */
+public class Serializer {
+
+    /**
+     * The constructor.
+     */
+    private Serializer() {
+
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Serializes an object into a byte array.
+     * 
+     * @param object the object to be serialized
+     * @return the byte array containing the serialized object
+     * @throws IOException if an error occurs
+     */
+    public static <T> byte[] serialize(T object) throws IOException {
+        try (ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
+            try (ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(out)) {
+                oos.writeObject(object);
+            }
+
+            return out.toByteArray();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * De-serializes an object from a byte array.
+     * 
+     * @param clazz class of object that is expected to be de-serialized
+     * @param data the byte array containing the serialized object
+     * @return the object that was de-serialized from the byte array
+     * @throws IOException if an error occurs
+     */
+    public static <T> T deserialize(Class<T> clazz, byte[] data) throws IOException {
+
+        try (ByteArrayInputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(data);
+                        ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(in)) {
+            return clazz.cast(ois.readObject());
+
+        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            throw new IOException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Runs an object through a complete round trip, serializing and then de-serializing
+     * it.
+     * 
+     * @param object object to be serialized
+     * @return the object that was de-serialized
+     * @throws IOException if an error occurs
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public static <T> T roundTrip(T object) throws IOException {
+        return (T) deserialize(object.getClass(), serialize(object));
+    }
+}