I want to read and write an object to a file. This is my attempt:
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class SaveOpen implements Serializable
{
private static String fileName;
private ArrayList<Person> list = new ArrayList<Person>();
public SaveOpen() {
fileName = "file.txt";
}
//Reader
public static Object deserialize() throws IOException,
ClassNotFoundException {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fileName);
BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(bis);
Object obj = ois.readObject();
ois.close();
return obj;
}
//Writer
public static void serialize(Object obj)
throws IOException {
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fos);
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
oos.writeObject(obj);
oos.close();
}
public void setFileName(String fileName) {
this.fileName = fileName;
}
public ArrayList<Person> getListPersons() {
return list;
}
}
However, I do not know if this is the correct way nor how to implement this in a class. The object is Person and I want to save and read that object from a file. Is it supposed to be done to a .txt file? Anyone who can clearify things? Thanks!
if you want the file to be human readable i would suggest to save it as xml.
Example :
Object Class
import java.io.Serializable;
public class Person implements Serializable
{
private String username;
private int id;
public String UserName() { return username; }
public void setUserName(String str) { username = str;}
public int ID() { return id; }
public void setID(int ID) { id = ID; }
}
-Serializer/Deserializer
import Settings.Person;
import java.beans.XMLDecoder;
import java.beans.XMLEncoder;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
public class XmlSerializer
{
//File path to serialize to and deserialize from
private static final String SERIALIZED_FILE_NAME = "yourSavePath.xml";
//Insert person object and save as xml file to chosen filepath
public static void Serialize(Person person)
{
try
{
FileOutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(SERIALIZED_FILE_NAME);
XMLEncoder encoder = new XMLEncoder(os);
encoder.writeObject(person);
encoder.close();
}
catch(FileNotFoundException ex)
{
System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
}
}
//Deserialize xml file into person object
public static Person Deserialize()
{
try
{
FileInputStream os = new FileInputStream(SERIALIZED_FILE_NAME);
XMLDecoder decoder = new XMLDecoder(os);
Person p = (Person)decoder.readObject();
decoder.close();
return p;
}
catch(FileNotFoundException ex)
{
System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
}
return null;
}
}
You're doing it right already. You can safe Objects in a txt file altough it makes not much sense, I'd rather go with a binary file.
To store multiple Objects in a single File, simply pack them in a Collection and then serialize the Collection object.
When reading an Object from a File, check its Class via instanceof and cast it to whatever it is.
Related
I need to save an arraylist in a txt when I close a window and load it when I return to open the program so that it shows what is saved in a JTable.
This is my arraylist
ArrayList<Usuarios> Encuestados = new ArrayList<>();
And I'm saving in this way but I would not know how to load the saved txt to the arraylist
public void guardarTxt() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException, ClassNotFoundException{
FileOutputStream fout=new FileOutputStream("Datos/Encuestados.txt");
try (ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(fout)) {
out.writeObject(Encuestados);
}
}
You just need to serialize and deserialize the objects in the array. You can search for serialize and deserialize objects in java. I have implemented a code below.
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
class Usuarios implements Serializable { // will need to implement Serializable class
private static final long serialversionUID = 129348938L; // this is needed
String name;
int age;
// Default constructor
public Usuarios(String name, int age) {
this.name = name;
}
}
public class Main { // Example class for Serialization and deserialization
// method for printing the object
public static void printdata(Usuarios object1) {
System.out.println("name = " + object1.name);
System.out.println("age = " + object1.age);
}
public static void serialize(ArrayList<Usuarios> list, String filename){
// Serialization
try {
// Saving of object in a file
FileOutputStream file = new FileOutputStream
(filename);
ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream
(file);
// Method for serialization of object
out.writeObject(list);
out.close();
file.close();
System.out.println("Object has been serialized");
}
catch (IOException ex) {
System.out.println("IOException is caught");
}
}
public static ArrayList<Usuarios> deserialize(String filename){
// Deserialization
try {
// Reading the object from a file
FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream
(filename);
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream
(file);
// Method for deserialization of object
ArrayList<Usuarios> list = (ArrayList<Usuarios>)in.readObject();
System.out.println("Object has been deserialized");
in.close();
file.close();
return list;
}
catch (IOException ex) {
System.out.println("IOException is caught");
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
System.out.println("ClassNotFoundException" +
" is caught");
}
return null;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Usuarios object1 = new Usuarios ("ab", 20);
Usuarios object2 = new Usuarios ("cd", 21);
String filename = "s.txt";
ArrayList<Usuarios> EncuestadosBeforeSerialization = new ArrayList<>();
EncuestadosBeforeSerialization.add(object1);
EncuestadosBeforeSerialization.add(object2);
System.out.println("Data before Deserialization.");
for (Usuarios object: EncuestadosBeforeSerialization) {
printdata(object);
};
serialize(EncuestadosBeforeSerialization, filename);
System.out.println("\n\nData will be Deserialize.");
ArrayList<Usuarios> EncuestadosAfterSerialization = deserialize(filename);
System.out.println("Data after Deserialization.");
for (Usuarios object: EncuestadosAfterSerialization) {
printdata(object);
};
}
}
Result:
Data before Deserialization.
name = ab
age = 0
name = cd
age = 0
Object has been serialized
Data will be Deserialize.
Object has been deserialized
Data after Deserialization.
name = ab
age = 0
name = cd
age = 0
my mainActivity has a ListView which should display my CustomList:
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class CustomList implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private ArrayList<Game> list = new ArrayList<Game>();
public void add(Game toAdd){
list.add(toAdd);
}
public Game get(int id){
return list.get(id);
}
public ArrayList<Game> getList(){
return list;
}
public void serialize(){
try {
FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream("res\\data.dat");
ObjectOutputStream ou = new ObjectOutputStream(fo);
ou.writeObject(list);
ou.close();
fo.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void deserialize(){
try {
FileInputStream fi = new FileInputStream("res\\data.dat");
ObjectInputStream oi = new ObjectInputStream(fi);
list = (ArrayList<Game>)oi.readObject();
oi.close();
fi.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
I get the following error trying to serialize or desirialize:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: res\data.dat: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)
My question is how to proper point to my data.dat file.
Thanks in advance
You can't write into the res directory (that's read-only), you have to write to somewhere else, e.g. to the cache directory (if it's only temporary; use context.getCacheDir() to get it's location) or to some permanent space (e.g. context.getFilesDir()).
You can get the file location like this, what you can pass to the FileOutputStream's or the FileInputStream's constructor:
File file = new File(context.getFilesDir(), "data.dat");
You may also have to request permission to write to external storage if you choose so.
Read more about storing files in Android here: http://developer.android.com/training/basics/data-storage/files.html
This seems to be simple but I failed to get a serialized JsonNode deserialized. Here is my test class
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
public class Foo implements Serializable {
private String string;
private transient JsonNode jsonNode;
public Foo(String string, JsonNode jsonNode) {
this.string = string;
this.jsonNode = jsonNode;
}
private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream out) throws IOException {
out.defaultWriteObject();
if (this.jsonNode != null) out.writeObject((new ObjectMapper()).writeValueAsBytes(this.jsonNode));
// out.writeObject(this.jsonNode.textValue());
}
private void readObject(ObjectInputStream in) throws IOException,ClassNotFoundException {
in.defaultReadObject();
this.jsonNode = (new ObjectMapper()).readValue(in, JsonNode.class);
}
}
When I tried to deserialize I got this error
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: No content to map due to end-of-input
Here is the unit test
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.JsonNodeFactory;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import java.io.*;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
public class FooTest {
#Test
public void testSerialization() {
JsonNodeFactory nodeFactory = new JsonNodeFactory(false);
ObjectNode node = nodeFactory.objectNode();
ObjectNode child = nodeFactory.objectNode(); // the child
child.put("message", "test");
node.put("notification", child);
Foo foo = new Foo("Bar", node);
String fileName = "foo.ser";
try (
OutputStream file = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
OutputStream buffer = new BufferedOutputStream(file);
ObjectOutput output = new ObjectOutputStream(buffer);
){
output.writeObject(foo);
}
catch(IOException ex){
ex.getStackTrace();
}
Foo fooNew = null;
//deserialize the ser file
try(
InputStream file = new FileInputStream(fileName);
InputStream buffer = new BufferedInputStream(file);
ObjectInput input = new ObjectInputStream (buffer);
){
//deserialize the Object
fooNew = (Foo) input.readObject();
}
catch(ClassNotFoundException ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
catch(IOException ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
assertEquals(foo, fooNew);
}
}
Your read and write operations are not matched.
On the write side you use ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(Object) to write a byte[] containing the serialized JSON content. On the read side you try to read raw bytes off the stream with ObjectMapper.readValue(InputStream, Class) when you actually need to read a byte[] object first as that is what you wrote and then use ObjectMapper.readValue(byte[], Class).
Alternatively and probably a better solution is you could use ObjectMapper.writeValue(OutputStream, Object) instead on the write side.
Try this:
private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream out) throws IOException {
out.defaultWriteObject();
if(jsonNode == null){
out.writeBoolean(false);
} else {
out.writeBoolean(true);
new ObjectMapper().configure(JsonGenerator.Feature.AUTO_CLOSE_TARGET, false).writeValue(out, jsonNode);
}
}
private void readObject(ObjectInputStream in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
in.defaultReadObject();
if(in.readBoolean()){
this.jsonNode = new ObjectMapper().configure(JsonParser.Feature.AUTO_CLOSE_SOURCE, false).readValue(in, JsonNode.class);
}
}
I have used this code to store Object to a file:
try{
FileOutputStream saveFile=new FileOutputStream("SaveObj.sav");
ObjectOutputStream save = new ObjectOutputStream(saveFile);
save.writeObject(x);
save.close();
}
catch(Exception exc){
exc.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
How remove the single Object??
How clear the file??
Well, emptying out a file is very easy -- just open it for writing, and close it again:
new FileOutputStream("SaveObj.sav").close();
That will empty it out. If you were trying to erase one object out of many, though, that's a lot more complicated. You'd either have to read in all the objects and write out only the ones you want to keep, or you'd have to keep an index of the file offsets at which each object starts (probably in a separate file.) At that point you'd want to consider using an object database instead.
Ernest is right in that a removal of a particular object from the object-stream is slightly more complicated. He is also right that when you want to empty a file, you can simply open it for writing and close it. But if you want to remove it from the file-system, it is fine to do it using the File object (do not forget to handle the exceptions and return values correctly). The following example may not be perfect, but it should give you a hint on how to achieve your goals with pure Java. Hope this helps...
package test;
import java.io.EOFException;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String filename = "object.serialized";
{
List objects = new ArrayList();
objects.add("String1");
objects.add("String2");
objects.add("String3");
writeObjectsToFile(filename, objects);
}
{
List objects = readObjectsFromFile(filename);
objects.remove(1);
writeObjectsToFile(filename, objects);
}
{
List objects = readObjectsFromFile(filename);
for (Object object : objects) {
System.out.println(object);
}
}
emptyFile(filename);
deleteFile(filename);
}
private static void emptyFile(String filename) throws IOException {
OutputStream os = null;
try {
os = new FileOutputStream(filename);
} finally {
if (os != null) {
os.close();
}
}
}
private static void deleteFile(String filename) {
File f = new File(filename);
if (f.delete()) {
System.out.println(filename + " deleted sucessfully...");
} else {
System.out.println(filename + " deletion failed!");
}
}
private static void writeObjectsToFile(String filename, List objects) throws IOException {
OutputStream os = null;
try {
os = new FileOutputStream(filename);
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(os);
for (Object object : objects) {
oos.writeObject(object);
}
oos.flush();
} finally {
if (os != null) {
os.close();
}
}
}
private static List readObjectsFromFile(String filename) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
List objects = new ArrayList();
InputStream is = null;
try {
is = new FileInputStream(filename);
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(is);
while (true) {
try {
Object object = ois.readObject();
objects.add(object);
} catch (EOFException ex) {
break;
}
}
} finally {
if (is != null) {
is.close();
}
}
return objects;
}
}
Outputs:
String1
String3
object.serialized deleted sucessfully...
I know there was a long time from this subject, but just to help future coming people, what works for me was to write the object again as a null value:
public static void writeIncidentsObjectsInCache(Object object) throws IOException {
writeObject(INCIDENTS_CACHE, object); }
public static Object readIncidentsObjectFromCache() throws IOException,
ClassNotFoundException {
return readObject(INCIDENTS_CACHE); }
public static void clearIncidents() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
writeIncidentsObjectsInCache(null); }
public static void writeObject(String key, Object object) throws IOException {
FileOutputStream fos = TheAAApp.getApp().openFileOutput(key, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
oos.writeObject(object);
oos.close();
fos.close();
}
public static Object readObject(String key) throws IOException,
ClassNotFoundException {
FileInputStream fis = TheAAApp.getApp().openFileInput(key);
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
Object object = ois.readObject();
return object;
}
I want a "simple" method so i can store shared objects in the disk, and then i can retrieve these so's from the disk even the red5 server restarts.
PS: i wasted many hours on finding good doc that explains the procedure but i found none.
Just notice that every field in your object should be serializable, then you can refer to this code sample:
import java.io.Serializable;
#SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class Person implements Serializable{
private String name;
private int age;
public Person(){
}
public Person(String str, int n){
System.out.println("Inside Person's Constructor");
name = str;
age = n;
}
String getName(){
return name;
}
int getAge(){
return age;
}}
**
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
public class SerializeToFlatFile {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SerializeToFlatFile ser = new SerializeToFlatFile();
ser.savePerson();
ser.restorePerson();
}
public void savePerson(){
Person myPerson = new Person("Jay",24);
try {
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("E:\\workspace\\2010_03\\src\\myPerson.txt");
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
System.out.println("Person--Jay,24---Written");
System.out.println("Name is: "+myPerson.getName());
System.out.println("Age is: "+myPerson.getAge());
oos.writeObject(myPerson);
oos.flush();
oos.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO: handle exception
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void restorePerson() {
try {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("E:\\workspace\\2010_03\\src\\myPerson.txt");
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
Person myPerson = (Person)ois.readObject();
System.out.println("\n--------------------\n");
System.out.println("Person--Jay,24---Restored");
System.out.println("Name is: "+myPerson.getName());
System.out.println("Age is: "+myPerson.getAge());
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO: handle exception
e.printStackTrace();
}
}}