<action issue="LANG-962" type="add" dev="ggregory">Add SerializationUtils.roundtrip(T extends Serializable) to serialize then deserialize</action>

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/lang/trunk@1563309 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/SerializationUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/SerializationUtils.java
index 6b4e6c415..f8429aca9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/SerializationUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/SerializationUtils.java
@@ -111,6 +111,18 @@ public class SerializationUtils {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Performs a serialization roundtrip. Serializes and deserializes the given object, great for testing objects that
+     * implement {@link Serializable}.
+     * 
+     * @param msg
+     *            the object to roundtrip
+     * @return the serialized and deseralized object
+     */
+    public static <T extends Serializable> T roundtrip(final T msg) {
+        return SerializationUtils.deserialize(SerializationUtils.serialize(msg));
+    }
+
     // Serialize
     //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
     /**