/**

  * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community 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.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  *

  * 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.kuali.rice.core.api.util.io;

 import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;

 import org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationException;

 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

 import java.io.Serializable;

 /**

  * {@code SerializationUtils} is a set of utilities to add in the serialization

  * of java objects.

  * 

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  *

  */

 public final class SerializationUtils {

         /**

          * Serializes the given {@link Serializable} object and then executes a

          * Base 64 encoding on it, returning the encoded value as a String.

          * 

          * @param object the object to serialize, cannot be null

          * @return a base 64-encoded representation of the serialized object

          * 

          * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the given object is null

          * @throws SerializationException if the serialization fails

          */

         public static String serializeToBase64(Serializable object) {

                 if (object == null) {

                         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot serialize a null object");

                 }

                 byte[] serializedBytes = org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationUtils.serialize(object);

                 return new Base64().encodeAsString(serializedBytes);

     }

         /**

          * Deserializes the given base 64-encoded string value to it's Serializable

          * object representation.

          * 

          * @param base64Value the base 64-encoded value to deserialize, must not be null or a blank string

          * @return the deserialized object

          * 

          * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the given value is is null or blank

          * @throws SerializationException if the deserialization fails

          */

         public static Serializable deserializeFromBase64(String base64Value) {

                 if (StringUtils.isBlank(base64Value)) {

                         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot deserialize a null or blank base64 string value.");

                 }

         byte[] decoded = new Base64().decode(base64Value);

                 return (Serializable)org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationUtils.deserialize(decoded);

         }

         private SerializationUtils() {

                 throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Should never be invoked.");

         }

 }