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Java

Timmie Nilsson
Timmie Nilsson
4,463 Points
Posted by Timmie Nilsson
Timmie Nilsson
4,463 Points

Decipher or deserialize a String array.

Hi I am in the serializations Java Data project and in my workspace I only get back wierd coding when im reading them back from a file like this from consol: Tweet: "Hej, har ni hört senaste nyheten?" by Timmie Nilsson on Fri Mar 23 12:03:19 UTC 2018
Tweet: "This is so fuuuun!" by journeytocode on Fri Mar 23 12:03:19 UTC 2018
[Lcom.dfsweb.Tweet;@2d98a335
[Lcom.dfsweb.Tweet;@2d98a335

As you can see it works fine when i make a for loop without saving them and reading them back from a file.

Example.Java 
import com.dfsweb.Tweet;
import com.dfsweb.Tweets;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Arrays;
public class Example {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
  Tweet tweet = new Tweet(
                    "Timmie Nilsson",
                    "Hej, har ni hört senaste nyheten?",
                    new Date()
  );

  Tweet secoundTweet = new Tweet(
                           "journeytocode",
                           "This is so fuuuun!",
                            new Date()
  );


  Tweet[] tweetArr = {tweet, secoundTweet};
    Arrays.sort(tweetArr);
    for (Tweet exampleTweet : tweetArr){
      System.out.println(exampleTweet);
    }

    Tweets.save(tweetArr);

    Tweet[] reloadedTweets = Tweets.load();
    for(Tweet tempTweets : reloadedTweets){
    System.out.println(reloadedTweets);
    }

  }
}
Tweet.java 
package com.dfsweb;

import java.util.Date;
import java.io.Serializable;
public class Tweet implements Comparable, Serializable {

 private String mAuthor;
 private String mDescription; 
 private Date mCreationDate;

 public Tweet (String author, String description, Date creationDate){
   mAuthor = author;
   mDescription  = description;
   mCreationDate = creationDate;
  }


  @Override
  public String toString(){
    return String.format("Tweet: \"%s\" by %s on %s", 
                         mDescription, mAuthor, mCreationDate);
  }

  @Override
  public int compareTo(Object obj){
  Tweet other = (Tweet) obj;
    if(equals(other)){
      return 0;
    }
    int dateCmp = mCreationDate.compareTo(other.mCreationDate);
    if (dateCmp == 0){
      return mDescription.compareTo(other.mDescription);
    }
     return dateCmp;
  }

  public String getAuthor(){
    return mAuthor;
  }

  public String getDescription(){
    return mDescription;
  }

  public Date getCreationDate(){
    return mCreationDate;
  }

  public String[] getWords(){
  return mDescription.toLowerCase().split("[^\\w#@'åäö]+");
  }


}
Tweets.java 
package com.dfsweb;

import java.io.*;

public class Tweets {
  public static void save(Tweet[] tweets){
    try (
      FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("tweets.ser");
      ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
      ) {
      oos.writeObject(tweets);
      } catch(IOException ioe) {
        System.out.println("Problem saving");
        ioe.printStackTrace();
    } 
  }

  public static Tweet[]load() {
    Tweet[] tweets = new Tweet[0];

    try(
      FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("tweets.ser");
      ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
    ) {
      tweets = (Tweet[]) ois.readObject();
    } catch(IOException ioe) {
        System.out.println("Problem loading");
        ioe.printStackTrace();
    } catch(ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
        System.out.println("Error loading tweets");
        cnfe.printStackTrace();
    }


    return tweets;
  }

}

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