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Serialization

The document discusses serialization and deserialization in Java. Serialization is the process of saving an object's state to a file, while deserialization is the process of recreating an object from a file. It provides an example of serializing a Student object to a file and then deserializing it, recreating the object. The document also notes that an object must implement the Serializable interface to be serialized.

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Serialization

The document discusses serialization and deserialization in Java. Serialization is the process of saving an object's state to a file, while deserialization is the process of recreating an object from a file. It provides an example of serializing a Student object to a file and then deserializing it, recreating the object. The document also notes that an object must implement the Serializable interface to be serialized.

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Serialization

 The process of saving or writing state of an object to a file is called


Serialization.
 Serialization can be achieved by using FileOutputStream and
ObjectOutputStream.
 Java supported object form  to network/file supported form

De-Serialization
 The process of reading state of an object from a file is called de-
serialization.
 Can be achieved by using FileInputStream and ObjectInputStream
classes.
 network/file supported form  Java supported object form
Example
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;

class Student implements Serializable


{
int CSIT = 33;
int AIML = 67;

}
public class SerializableDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) throws


IOException, ClassNotFoundException {

//Serialization
Student s1 = new Student();
System.out.println("Serialization process begins");
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("stu.ser");
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
oos.writeObject(s1);
System.out.println("Serialization Completed");

//De-Serialization
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("stu.ser");
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
Student s2 = (Student) ois.readObject();
System.out.println("De-Serialization Completed");
System.out.println(s2.CSIT);
System.out.println(s2.AIML);
}
}
 Can perform Serialization for Serializable objects.

 An object is said to be Serializable if and only if the corresponding class

implements Serializable interface.

 Serializable interface available in java.io package

 Serializable interface is a Marker interface i.e. it doesn’t contains any

methods(members).

 The required ability will be provided by JVM.

 Can add any number of objects to a file and read all those objects from a file.

 Read the objects in the order of writing.

 Trying to serialize a non-serializable object will raise

“NotSerializableException”.

 The String class and all the wrapper classes implement the

java.io.Serializable interface by default.

Advantages of Serialization

 To save/persist state of an object.

 To travel an object across a network.


During default Serialization there may be a chance of lose
of information due to transient keyword.(Ex : mango ,money ,
box)
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;

class Login implements Serializable


{
String name = "CVR";
String passwd = "csit";
}
public class SerializableDemo2 {

public static void main(String[] args) throws


IOException, ClassNotFoundException {

//Serialization
Login s1 = new Login();
System.out.println("Serialization process begins");
FileOutputStream fos = new
FileOutputStream("stu.ser");
ObjectOutputStream oos = new
ObjectOutputStream(fos);
oos.writeObject(s1);
System.out.println("Serialization Completed");

//De-Serialization
FileInputStream fis = new
FileInputStream("stu.ser");
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
Login s2 = (Login) ois.readObject();
System.out.println("De-Serialization Completed");
System.out.println(s2.name);
System.out.println(s2.passwd);
}
}
Output:
Serialization process begins
Serialization Completed
De-Serialization Completed
CVR
Null

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;

class Login implements Serializable


{
String name = "CVR";
transient String passwd = "csit";

/* private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream oos) throws


Exception
{
oos.defaultWriteObject();
String epwd = "369"+passwd;
oos.writeObject(epwd);
}
private void readObject(ObjectInputStream ois) throws
Exception
{
ois.defaultReadObject();
String epwd = (String)ois.readObject();
passwd = epwd.substring(3);
} */
}
public class SerializableDemo2 {

public static void main(String[] args) throws


IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
//Serialization
Login s1 = new Login();
System.out.println("Serialization process begins");
FileOutputStream fos = new
FileOutputStream("stu.ser");
ObjectOutputStream oos = new
ObjectOutputStream(fos);
oos.writeObject(s1);
System.out.println("Serialization Completed");

//De-Serialization
FileInputStream fis = new
FileInputStream("stu.ser");
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
Login s2 = (Login) ois.readObject();
System.out.println("De-Serialization Completed");
System.out.println(s2.name);
System.out.println(s2.passwd);
}
}

Serialization process begins


Serialization Completed
De-Serialization Completed
CVR
csit

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