nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-framework-core/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/persistence/TemplateSerializer.java

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package org.apache.nifi.persistence;

import org.apache.nifi.controller.serialization.FlowSerializationException;
import org.apache.nifi.web.api.dto.TemplateDTO;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public final class TemplateSerializer {

    private static final JAXBContext jaxbContext;

    static {
        try {
            jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(TemplateDTO.class);
        } catch (final JAXBException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Cannot create JAXBContext for serializing templates", e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * This method when called assumes the Framework Nar ClassLoader is in the
     * classloader hierarchy of the current context class loader.
     * @param dto the template dto to serialize
     * @return serialized representation of the DTO
     */
    public static byte[] serialize(final TemplateDTO dto) {
        try {
            final ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            final BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(baos);

            final Marshaller marshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
            marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);
            marshaller.marshal(dto, bos);

            bos.flush();
            return baos.toByteArray(); //Note: For really large templates this could use a lot of heap space
        } catch (final IOException | JAXBException e) {
            throw new FlowSerializationException(e);
        }
    }

}