AvroSerializerHelper.java

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package com.senseidb.gateway.kafka;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

import org.apache.avro.io.BinaryDecoder;
import org.apache.avro.io.BinaryEncoder;
import org.apache.avro.io.DecoderFactory;
import org.apache.avro.specific.SpecificDatumReader;
import org.apache.avro.specific.SpecificDatumWriter;

public class AvroSerializerHelper {

	public static <V> byte[] toBytes(V v,Class<V> cls) throws Exception{
        ByteArrayOutputStream bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
		
		SpecificDatumWriter<V> writer = new SpecificDatumWriter<V>(cls);
		BinaryEncoder binEncoder = new BinaryEncoder(bout);
		writer.write(v, binEncoder);
		binEncoder.flush();
		
		return bout.toByteArray();
	}
	
	public static <V> V fromBytes(byte[] bytes, Class<V> cls) throws Exception{
       SpecificDatumReader<V> reader = new SpecificDatumReader<V>(cls);
		
		BinaryDecoder binDecoder = DecoderFactory.defaultFactory().createBinaryDecoder(bytes, null);
		V val = cls.newInstance();
		reader.read(val, binDecoder);
		
		return val;
	}
}