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      1 /*
      2  * Copyright (C) 2007 The Guava Authors
      3  *
      4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
      5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
      6  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
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      9  *
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     14  * limitations under the License.
     15  */
     16 
     17 package com.google.common.testing;
     18 
     19 import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
     20 import com.google.common.annotations.GwtCompatible;
     21 
     22 import junit.framework.Assert;
     23 import junit.framework.AssertionFailedError;
     24 
     25 /**
     26  * Tests serialization and deserialization of an object, optionally asserting
     27  * that the resulting object is equal to the original.
     28  *
     29  * <p><b>GWT warning:</b> Under GWT, both methods simply returns their input,
     30  * as proper GWT serialization tests require more setup.  This no-op behavior
     31  * allows test authors to intersperse {@code SerializableTester} calls with
     32  * other, GWT-compatible tests.
     33  *
     34  *
     35  * @author Mike Bostock
     36  * @since 10.0
     37  */
     38 @Beta
     39 @GwtCompatible // but no-op!
     40 public final class SerializableTester {
     41   private SerializableTester() {}
     42 
     43   /**
     44    * Serializes and deserializes the specified object.
     45    *
     46    * <p><b>GWT warning:</b> Under GWT, this method simply returns its input, as
     47    * proper GWT serialization tests require more setup.  This no-op behavior
     48    * allows test authors to intersperse {@code SerializableTester} calls with
     49    * other, GWT-compatible tests.
     50    *
     51    * <p>Note that the specified object may not be known by the compiler to be a
     52    * {@link java.io.Serializable} instance, and is thus declared an
     53    * {@code Object}. For example, it might be declared as a {@code List}.
     54    *
     55    * @return the re-serialized object
     56    * @throws RuntimeException if the specified object was not successfully
     57    *     serialized or deserialized
     58    */
     59   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     60   public static <T> T reserialize(T object) {
     61     return Platform.reserialize(object);
     62   }
     63 
     64   /**
     65    * Serializes and deserializes the specified object and verifies that the
     66    * re-serialized object is equal to the provided object, that the hashcodes
     67    * are identical, and that the class of the re-serialized object is identical
     68    * to that of the original.
     69    *
     70    * <p><b>GWT warning:</b> Under GWT, this method simply returns its input, as
     71    * proper GWT serialization tests require more setup.  This no-op behavior
     72    * allows test authors to intersperse {@code SerializableTester} calls with
     73    * other, GWT-compatible tests.
     74    *
     75    * <p>Note that the specified object may not be known by the compiler to be a
     76    * {@link java.io.Serializable} instance, and is thus declared an
     77    * {@code Object}. For example, it might be declared as a {@code List}.
     78    *
     79    * <p>Note also that serialization is not in general required to return an
     80    * object that is {@linkplain Object#equals equal} to the original, nor is it
     81    * required to return even an object of the same class. For example, if
     82    * sublists of {@code MyList} instances were serializable, those sublists
     83    * might implement a private {@code MySubList} type but serialize as a plain
     84    * {@code MyList} to save space. So long as {@code MyList} has all the public
     85    * supertypes of {@code MySubList}, this is safe. For these cases, for which
     86    * {@code reserializeAndAssert} is too strict, use {@link #reserialize}.
     87    *
     88    * @return the re-serialized object
     89    * @throws RuntimeException if the specified object was not successfully
     90    *     serialized or deserialized
     91    * @throws AssertionFailedError if the re-serialized object is not equal to
     92    *     the original object, or if the hashcodes are different.
     93    */
     94   public static <T> T reserializeAndAssert(T object) {
     95     T copy = reserialize(object);
     96     new EqualsTester()
     97         .addEqualityGroup(object, copy)
     98         .testEquals();
     99     Assert.assertEquals(object.getClass(), copy.getClass());
    100     return copy;
    101   }
    102 }
    103