Class MarshalledObject<T>

public MarshalledObject(T obj)
            throws IOException

Constructs a MarshalledObject from the given object.

Parameters:

obj - the object to marshal

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error during serialization occurs.

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Checks if the given object is equal to this marshalled object.

Marshalled objects are considered equal if they contain the same serialized object. Codebase annotations where the class definition can be downloaded are ignored in the equals test.

Overrides:

equals in interface Object

Parameters:

obj - the object to compare.

Returns:

true if equal, false otherwise.

public T get()
            throws IOException,
                   ClassNotFoundException

Constructs and returns a copy of the internal serialized object.

Returns:

The deserialized object.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O exception occurs during deserialization.

ClassNotFoundException - if the class of the deserialized object cannot be found.

public int hashCode()

Get a value that represents this Object, as uniquely as possible within the confines of an int.

There are some requirements on this method which subclasses must follow:

• Semantic equality implies identical hashcodes. In other words, if a.equals(b) is true, then a.hashCode() == b.hashCode() must be as well. However, the reverse is not necessarily true, and two objects may have the same hashcode without being equal.
• It must be consistent. Whichever value o.hashCode() returns on the first invocation must be the value returned on all later invocations as long as the object exists. Notice, however, that the result of hashCode may change between separate executions of a Virtual Machine, because it is not invoked on the same object.

Notice that since hashCode is used in Hashtable and other hashing classes, a poor implementation will degrade the performance of hashing (so don't blindly implement it as returning a constant!). Also, if calculating the hash is time-consuming, a class may consider caching the results.

The default implementation returns System.identityHashCode(this)

Overrides:

hashCode in interface Object

Returns:

the hash code for this Object

See Also:

Object.equals(Object), System.identityHashCode(Object)