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package scala.util

/**
 * Marshalling of Scala objects using Scala tags.
 *
 * @author Stephane Micheloud
 * @version 1.0
 */
@deprecated("This class will be removed", "2.10.0")
object Marshal {
  import java.io._
  import scala.reflect.ClassTag

  def dump[A](o: A)(implicit t: ClassTag[A]): Array[Byte] = {
    val ba = new ByteArrayOutputStream(512)
    val out = new ObjectOutputStream(ba)
    out.writeObject(t)
    out.writeObject(o)
    out.close()
    ba.toByteArray()
  }

  @throws(classOf[IOException])
  @throws(classOf[ClassCastException])
  @throws(classOf[ClassNotFoundException])
  def load[A](buffer: Array[Byte])(implicit expected: ClassTag[A]): A = {
    val in = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(buffer))
    val found = in.readObject.asInstanceOf[ClassTag[_]]
    try {
      found.runtimeClass.asSubclass(expected.runtimeClass)
      in.readObject.asInstanceOf[A]
    } catch {
      case _: ClassCastException =>
        in.close()
        throw new ClassCastException("type mismatch;"+
          "\n found   : "+found+
          "\n required: "+expected)
    }
  }
}