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/**
 *  Copyright (c) 2010-2012, The StaccatoCommons Team
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 */

package net.sf.staccatocommons.io.serialization;

import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.Writer;

import org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationException;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.BaseException;

/**
 * 
 * An {@link XmlSerializationManager} that converts objects using XStream
 * 
 * @author flbulgarelli
 * 
 */
// TODO move to legato. No technology-specific classes should be in
// staccatissimo
public class XStreamXmlSerializationManager extends AbstractCharSerializationManager {

  private final XStream xstream;

  /**
   * Creates a new XStreamSerializationManager using a new XStream()
   */
  public XStreamXmlSerializationManager() {
    this(new XStream());
  }

  /**
   * Creates a new {@link XStreamXmlSerializationManager} using a given
   * {@link XStream} instance.
   * 
   * @param xstream
   */
  public XStreamXmlSerializationManager(XStream xstream) {
    this.xstream = xstream;
  }

  @Override
  public  T deserialize(Reader reader) {
    try {
      return (T) xstream.fromXML(reader);
    } catch (BaseException e) {
      throw new SerializationException(e);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void serialize(Object object, Writer writer) {
    try {
      xstream.toXML(object, writer);
    } catch (BaseException e) {
      throw new SerializationException(e);
    }
  }

  /**
   * @return the underlying {@link XStream} object
   */
  public XStream getXstream() {
    return xstream;
  }

}