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Simple use of Externalizable and a pitfall
Simple use of Externalizable and a pitfall


// : c12:Blips.java
// Simple use of Externalizable & a pitfall.
// {Clean: Blips.out}
// From 'Thinking in Java, 3rd ed.' (c) Bruce Eckel 2002
// www.BruceEckel.com. See copyright notice in CopyRight.txt.

import java.io.Externalizable;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInput;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutput;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;

class Blip1 implements Externalizable {
  public Blip1() {
    System.out.println("Blip1 Constructor");
  }

  public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput outthrows IOException {
    System.out.println("Blip1.writeExternal");
  }

  public void readExternal(ObjectInput inthrows IOException,
      ClassNotFoundException {
    System.out.println("Blip1.readExternal");
  }
}

class Blip2 implements Externalizable {
  Blip2() {
    System.out.println("Blip2 Constructor");
  }

  public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput outthrows IOException {
    System.out.println("Blip2.writeExternal");
  }

  public void readExternal(ObjectInput inthrows IOException,
      ClassNotFoundException {
    System.out.println("Blip2.readExternal");
  }
}

public class Blips {
  // Throw exceptions to console:
  public static void main(String[] argsthrows IOException,
      ClassNotFoundException {
    System.out.println("Constructing objects:");
    Blip1 b1 = new Blip1();
    Blip2 b2 = new Blip2();
    ObjectOutputStream o = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(
        "Blips.out"));
    System.out.println("Saving objects:");
    o.writeObject(b1);
    o.writeObject(b2);
    o.close();
    // Now get them back:
    ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(
        "Blips.out"));
    System.out.println("Recovering b1:");
    b1 = (Blip1in.readObject();
    // OOPS! Throws an exception:
    //! System.out.println("Recovering b2:");
    //! b2 = (Blip2)in.readObject();
  }
///:~


           
       
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