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The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

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/*
 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
 *
 * The Netty Project 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.jboss.netty.handler.codec.serialization;

import static org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffers.*;

import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;

import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBufferOutputStream;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelHandler.Sharable;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
import org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.oneone.OneToOneEncoder;

/**
 * An encoder which serializes a Java object into a {@link ChannelBuffer}.
 * 
 * Please note that the serialized form this encoder produces is not
 * compatible with the standard {@link ObjectInputStream}.  Please use
 * {@link ObjectDecoder} or {@link ObjectDecoderInputStream} to ensure the
 * interoperability with this encoder.
 *
 * @apiviz.landmark
 * @apiviz.has org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.serialization.ObjectEncoderOutputStream - - - compatible with
 */
@Sharable
public class ObjectEncoder extends OneToOneEncoder {
    private static final byte[] LENGTH_PLACEHOLDER = new byte[4];

    private final int estimatedLength;

    /**
     * Creates a new encoder with the estimated length of 512 bytes.
     */
    public ObjectEncoder() {
        this(512);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new encoder.
     *
     * @param estimatedLength
     *        the estimated byte length of the serialized form of an object.
     *        If the length of the serialized form exceeds this value, the
     *        internal buffer will be expanded automatically at the cost of
     *        memory bandwidth.  If this value is too big, it will also waste
     *        memory bandwidth.  To avoid unnecessary memory copy or allocation
     *        cost, please specify the properly estimated value.
     */
    public ObjectEncoder(int estimatedLength) {
        if (estimatedLength < 0) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "estimatedLength: " + estimatedLength);
        }
        this.estimatedLength = estimatedLength;
    }

    @Override
    protected Object encode(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Channel channel, Object msg) throws Exception {
        ChannelBufferOutputStream bout =
            new ChannelBufferOutputStream(dynamicBuffer(
                    estimatedLength, ctx.getChannel().getConfig().getBufferFactory()));
        bout.write(LENGTH_PLACEHOLDER);
        ObjectOutputStream oout = new CompactObjectOutputStream(bout);
        oout.writeObject(msg);
        oout.flush();
        oout.close();

        ChannelBuffer encoded = bout.buffer();
        encoded.setInt(0, encoded.writerIndex() - 4);
        return encoded;
    }
}