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+#--
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#++
+
+module Qpid
+
+  module Messaging
+
+    # Encodes the supplied content into the given message.
+    def self.encode content, message, encoding = nil # :nodoc:
+      Cqpid::encode content, message.message_impl, encoding
+    end
+
+    # Decodes and returns the message's content.
+    def self.decode(message, content_type = nil) # :nodoc:
+      content_type = message.content_type if content_type.nil?
+
+      case content_type
+        when "amqp/map"
+          return Cqpid.decodeMap message.message_impl
+        when "amqp/list"
+          return Cqpid.decodeList message.message_impl
+      end
+
+      message.content
+    end
+
+    # Takes as input any type and converts anything that's a symbol
+    # into a string.
+    def self.stringify(value) # :nodoc:
+      # set the default value
+      result = value
+
+      case value
+
+      when Symbol
+        result = value.to_s
+
+      when Hash
+        result = {}
+        value.each_pair do |key, value|
+          result[stringify(key)] = stringify(value)
+        end
+
+      when Array
+        result = []
+        value.each do |element|
+          result  << stringify(element)
+        end
+
+      end
+
+      return result
+
+    end
+
+  end
+
+end
+