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/**
 * (c) Copyright 2013 WibiData, Inc.
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 * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional
 * information regarding copyright ownership.
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 * 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
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 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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package com.moz.fiji.hive.utils;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableFactories;

/**
 * Convenience classes for serializing/deserializing Writable objects into byte[]s.
 */
public final class ByteWritable {
    /**
     * Utility class cannot be instantiated.
     */
    private ByteWritable() {
    }

    public static byte[] serialize(Writable writable) throws IOException {
        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        DataOutputStream dataOut = null;
        try {
            dataOut = new DataOutputStream(out);
            writable.write(dataOut);
            return out.toByteArray();
        } finally {
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(dataOut);
        }
    }

    public static <T extends Writable> T asWritable(byte[] bytes, Class<T> clazz) throws IOException {
        T result = null;
        DataInputStream dataIn = null;
        try {
            result = (T) WritableFactories.newInstance(clazz);
            ByteArrayInputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
            dataIn = new DataInputStream(in);
            result.readFields(dataIn);
        } finally {
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(dataIn);
        }
        return result;
    }
}