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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.
+ *
+ */
+package org.apache.qpid.server.util;
+
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
+import org.codehaus.jackson.type.TypeReference;
+
+public class MapJsonSerializer
+{
+    private static final TypeReference<Map<String, Object>> MAP_TYPE_REFERENCE = new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>()
+    {
+    };
+
+    private ObjectMapper _mapper;
+
+    public MapJsonSerializer()
+    {
+        _mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+    }
+
+    public String serialize(Map<String, Object> attributeMap)
+    {
+        StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
+        try
+        {
+            _mapper.writeValue(stringWriter, attributeMap);
+        }
+        catch (Exception e)
+        {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Failure to serialize map:" + attributeMap, e);
+        }
+        return stringWriter.toString();
+    }
+
+    public Map<String, Object> deserialize(String json)
+    {
+        Map<String, Object> attributesMap = null;
+        try
+        {
+            attributesMap = _mapper.readValue(json, MAP_TYPE_REFERENCE);
+        }
+        catch (Exception e)
+        {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Failure to deserialize json:" + json, e);
+        }
+        return attributesMap;
+    }
+}