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*
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* Contributors:
*
* Kohsuke Kawaguchi
*
*
*******************************************************************************/
package hudson.util;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.basic.AbstractSingleValueConverter;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.basic.StringConverter;
/**
* The default {@link StringConverter} in XStream uses {@link String#intern()},
* which stresses the (rather limited) PermGen space with a large XML file.
*
* <p> Use this to avoid that (instead those strings will now be allocated to
* the heap space.)
*
* @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
*/
public class HeapSpaceStringConverter extends AbstractSingleValueConverter {
public boolean canConvert(Class type) {
return type.equals(String.class);
}
public Object fromString(String str) {
return str;
}
}