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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.thrift;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+
+import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol;
+import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocol;
+import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocolFactory;
+import org.apache.thrift.transport.TIOStreamTransport;
+
+/**
+ * Generic utility for easily serializing objects into a byte array or Java
+ * String.
+ *
+ */
+public class TSerializer {
+
+  /**
+   * This is the byte array that data is actually serialized into
+   */
+  private final ByteArrayOutputStream baos_ = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+
+  /**
+   * This transport wraps that byte array
+   */
+  private final TIOStreamTransport transport_ = new TIOStreamTransport(baos_);
+
+  /**
+   * Internal protocol used for serializing objects.
+   */
+  private TProtocol protocol_;
+
+  /**
+   * Create a new TSerializer that uses the TBinaryProtocol by default.
+   */
+  public TSerializer() {
+    this(new TBinaryProtocol.Factory());
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Create a new TSerializer. It will use the TProtocol specified by the
+   * factory that is passed in.
+   *
+   * @param protocolFactory Factory to create a protocol
+   */
+  public TSerializer(TProtocolFactory protocolFactory) {
+    protocol_ = protocolFactory.getProtocol(transport_);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Serialize the Thrift object into a byte array. The process is simple,
+   * just clear the byte array output, write the object into it, and grab the
+   * raw bytes.
+   *
+   * @param base The object to serialize
+   * @return Serialized object in byte[] format
+   */
+  public byte[] serialize(TBase base) throws TException {
+    baos_.reset();
+    base.write(protocol_);
+    return baos_.toByteArray();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Serialize the Thrift object into a Java string, using a specified
+   * character set for encoding.
+   *
+   * @param base The object to serialize
+   * @param charset Valid JVM charset
+   * @return Serialized object as a String
+   */
+  public String toString(TBase base, String charset) throws TException {
+    try {
+      return new String(serialize(base), charset);
+    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uex) {
+      throw new TException("JVM DOES NOT SUPPORT ENCODING: " + charset);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Serialize the Thrift object into a Java string, using the default JVM
+   * charset encoding.
+   *
+   * @param base The object to serialize
+   * @return Serialized object as a String
+   */
+  public String toString(TBase base) throws TException {
+    return new String(serialize(base));
+  }
+}
+