Serializes an object to a file, masking out annoying exceptions.

        
/* Copyright (C) 2003 Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Computer Science Dept.
   This file is part of "MALLET" (MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit).
   http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/mallet
   This software is provided under the terms of the Common Public License,
   version 1.0, as published by http://www.opensource.org.  For further
   information, see the file `LICENSE' included with this distribution. */

//package cc.mallet.util;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * 
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:casutton@cs.umass.edu">Charles Sutton</a>
 * @version $Id: ArrayUtils.java,v 1.1 2007/10/22 21:37:40 mccallum Exp $
 */
public class Util {

   /**
     * Serializes an object to a file, masking out annoying exceptions.
     *  Any IO exceptions are caught, and printed to standard error.
     *  Consider using {@link #writeGzippedObject(java.io.File, java.io.Serializable)}
     *  instead, for that method will compress the serialized file, and it'll still
     * be reaoable by {@link #readObject}.
     * @param f File to write to
     * @param obj Object to serialize
     * @see #writeGzippedObject(java.io.File, java.io.Serializable)
     */
    public static void writeObject (File f, Serializable obj)
    {
      try {
        ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(f));
        oos.writeObject(obj);
        oos.close();
      }
      catch (IOException e) {
        System.err.println("Exception writing file " + f + ": " + e);
      }
    }
}

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