core/spi/src/main/java/org/apache/polygene/spi/serialization/AbstractTextSerializer.java

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package org.apache.polygene.spi.serialization;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
import org.apache.polygene.api.common.Optional;

import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;

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/**
 * Base Text Serializer.
 *
 * Implementations work on Strings, this base serializer encode these strings in UTF-8 to produce bytes.
 *
 * See {@link AbstractTextDeserializer}.
 */
public abstract class AbstractTextSerializer extends AbstractSerializer
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{
    public void serialize( Options options, OutputStream output, @Optional Object object )
    {
        try
        {
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            serialize( options, writer, object );
            output.write( writer.toString().getBytes( UTF_8 ) );
        }
        catch( IOException ex )
        {
            throw new UncheckedIOException( ex );
        }
    }
}