pregelix/pregelix-api/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/api/util/SerDeUtils.java

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package edu.uci.ics.pregelix.api.util;

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

import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;

public class SerDeUtils {

    public static byte[] serialize(Writable object) throws IOException {
        ByteArrayOutputStream bbos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        DataOutput output = new DataOutputStream(bbos);
        object.write(output);
        return bbos.toByteArray();
    }

    public static void deserialize(Writable object, byte[] buffer) throws IOException {
        ByteArrayInputStream bbis = new ByteArrayInputStream(buffer);
        DataInput input = new DataInputStream(bbis);
        object.readFields(input);
    }

}