How to deserialize an object persisted in a db now when the object has different serialVersionUID

Question

My client has an oracle data base and an object was persisted as a blob field via objOutStream.writeObject, the object now has a different serialVersionUID (eve

Answer 1

Jorge I found one solution on http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=518416 which works.

Create the below class in your project. Whereever you creating object of ObjectInputStream, use DecompressibleInputStream instead and it deserializes the old object with the new version Id class.

public class DecompressibleInputStream extends ObjectInputStream {

    public DecompressibleInputStream(InputStream in) throws IOException {
        super(in);
    }


    protected ObjectStreamClass readClassDescriptor() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
        ObjectStreamClass resultClassDescriptor = super.readClassDescriptor(); // initially streams descriptor
        Class localClass = Class.forName(resultClassDescriptor.getName()); // the class in the local JVM that this descriptor represents.
        if (localClass == null) {
            System.out.println("No local class for " + resultClassDescriptor.getName());
            return resultClassDescriptor;
        }
        ObjectStreamClass localClassDescriptor = ObjectStreamClass.lookup(localClass);
        if (localClassDescriptor != null) { // only if class implements serializable
            final long localSUID = localClassDescriptor.getSerialVersionUID();
            final long streamSUID = resultClassDescriptor.getSerialVersionUID();
            if (streamSUID != localSUID) { // check for serialVersionUID mismatch.
                final StringBuffer s = new StringBuffer("Overriding serialized class version mismatch: ");
                s.append("local serialVersionUID = ").append(localSUID);
                s.append(" stream serialVersionUID = ").append(streamSUID);
                Exception e = new InvalidClassException(s.toString());
                System.out.println("Potentially Fatal Deserialization Operation. " + e);
                resultClassDescriptor = localClassDescriptor; // Use local class descriptor for deserialization
            }
        }
        return resultClassDescriptor;
    }
}