hyracks/hyracks-dataflow-hadoop/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/dataflow/hadoop/mapreduce/MarshalledWritable.java

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package edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.hadoop.mapreduce;

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

import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;

public class MarshalledWritable<T extends Writable> implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private byte[] bytes;

    public MarshalledWritable() {
    }

    public void set(T o) throws IOException {
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(baos);
        dos.writeUTF(o.getClass().getName());
        o.write(dos);
        dos.close();
        bytes = baos.toByteArray();
    }

    public T get() throws Exception {
        ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
        DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(bais);
        String className = dis.readUTF();
        T o = (T) HadoopTools.newInstance(className);
        o.readFields(dis);
        return o;
    }
}