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* Cloud9: A MapReduce Library for Hadoop
*
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*
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package tw.org.nchc.tuple;
import java.io.DataInput;
import java.io.DataOutput;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
/**
*
* Class that represents an array list in Hadoop's data type system. It extends ArrayList class,
* hence supports all services provided by ArrayList.
* Elements in the list must be homogeneous and must implement Hadoop's Writable interface.
* This class, combined with {@link Tuple}, allows the user to
* define arbitrarily complex data structures.
*
*
* @see Tuple
* @param
* type of list element
*/
public class ArrayListWritable extends ArrayList implements Writable{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
/**
* Creates an ArrayListWritable object.
*/
public ArrayListWritable() {
super();
}
/**
* Creates an ArrayListWritable object from a regular ArrayList.
*/
public ArrayListWritable(ArrayList array) {
super(array);
}
/**
* Deserializes the array.
*
* @param in
* source for raw byte representation
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public void readFields(DataInput in) throws IOException {
this.clear();
int numFields = in.readInt();
if(numFields==0) return;
String className = in.readUTF();
E obj;
try {
Class c = Class.forName(className);
for (int i = 0; i < numFields; i++) {
obj = (E) c.newInstance();
obj.readFields(in);
this.add(obj);
}
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (InstantiationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
* Serializes this array.
*
* @param out
* where to write the raw byte representation
*/
public void write(DataOutput out) throws IOException {
out.writeInt(this.size());
if(size()==0) return;
E obj=get(0);
out.writeUTF(obj.getClass().getCanonicalName());
for (int i = 0; i < size(); i++) {
obj = get(i);
if (obj == null) {
throw new IOException("Cannot serialize null fields!");
}
obj.write(out);
}
}
/**
* Generates human-readable String representation of this ArrayList.
*
* @return human-readable String representation of this ArrayList
*/
public String toString() {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append("[");
for (int i = 0; i < this.size(); i++) {
if (i != 0)
sb.append(", ");
sb.append(this.get(i));
}
sb.append("]");
return sb.toString();
}
}