/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2011 Sonatype, Inc. and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Sonatype, Inc - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.io;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Collection;
import org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.io.MetadataWriter;
import org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.IInstallableUnit;
/**
* This class allows to serialize a collection of {@link IInstallableUnit}s.
* These serialized IUs can be read using the {@link IUDeserializer}.
* The format in which the IUs are serialized is not API and is subject to change without notice.
* @since 1.2
*/
public class IUSerializer {
MetadataWriter writer;
/**
* Construct a serializer.
* @param os the output stream against which the serializer will work.
* @throws UnsupportedEncodingException
*/
public IUSerializer(OutputStream os) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
writer = new MetadataWriter(os, null);
}
/**
* Serialize the given collections of IU.
* @param ius the collection of {@link IInstallableUnit}s to serialize
*/
public void write(Collection<IInstallableUnit> ius) {
writer.writeInstallableUnits(ius.iterator(), ius.size());
writer.flush();
}
}