Issue #595: Pluggable serializers - basic implementation

akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/serialization/Serializer.scala

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+package akka.serialization
+
+/**
+ * Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Scalable Solutions AB <http://scalablesolutions.se>
+ */
+
+import java.io.{ ObjectOutputStream, ByteArrayOutputStream, ObjectInputStream, ByteArrayInputStream }
+import akka.util.ClassLoaderObjectInputStream
+import akka.actor.ActorRef
+
+trait Serializer extends scala.Serializable {
+  def toBinary(o: AnyRef): Array[Byte]
+  def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], clazz: Option[Class[_]] = None, classLoader: Option[ClassLoader] = None): AnyRef
+}
+
+class JavaSerializer extends Serializer {
+  def toBinary(o: AnyRef): Array[Byte] = {
+    val bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream
+    val out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos)
+    out.writeObject(o)
+    out.close()
+    bos.toByteArray
+  }
+
+  def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], clazz: Option[Class[_]] = None,
+                 classLoader: Option[ClassLoader] = None): AnyRef = {
+    val in =
+      if (classLoader.isDefined) new ClassLoaderObjectInputStream(classLoader.get, new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes)) else
+        new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes))
+    val obj = in.readObject
+    in.close()
+    obj
+  }
+}
+
+object JavaSerializer extends JavaSerializer
+object Serializer {
+  val defaultSerializerName = JavaSerializer.getClass.getName
+}