if serialized by encoding toString ISO-8859-1, how to unserialized

[stevenxuwoss]

public static String serialize(Object obj) throws IOException {
ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream objectOutputStream;
objectOutputStream = new ObjectOutputStream(byteArrayOutputStream);
objectOutputStream.writeObject(obj);
//String string = byteArrayOutputStream.toString();
String string = byteArrayOutputStream.toString("ISO-8859-1");
objectOutputStream.close();
byteArrayOutputStream.close();
return string;
}

[tcalmant]

If I understand correctly, you want to transmit the serialized object as a String.
The ISO-8859-1 encoding should indeed ensure to have the equivalent of the underlying bytes without conversion nor error.
Note that internally, the String will have its "modified UTF-8" representation of the content: it is a Java String.

If you can, it would be preferable to use the byte array returned by byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray(), as you won't have to handle encoding.

If you need the result to be a String, I recommend you to use a format that is not sensitive to the encoding, like Base64

[stevenxuwoss]

thanks very much, i'll hava a try with base64