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/* Copyright 2013 NIC Chile Research Labs This file is part of TsCrypto. TsCrypto is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. TsCrypto is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with TsCrypto. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package cl.niclabs.tscrypto.common.datatypes; import java.lang.reflect.Type; import java.math.BigInteger; import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer; import com.google.gson.JsonElement; import com.google.gson.JsonParseException; import com.google.gson.JsonPrimitive; import com.google.gson.JsonSerializationContext; import com.google.gson.JsonSerializer; public class BigIntegerBase64TypeAdapter implements JsonSerializer<BigInteger>, JsonDeserializer<BigInteger> { @Override public JsonElement serialize(BigInteger src, Type typeOfSrc, JsonSerializationContext context) { return new JsonPrimitive(new String(Base64.encodeBase64(src.toByteArray()))); } @Override public BigInteger deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException { return new BigInteger(Base64.decodeBase64(json.getAsString())); } }