Implementations[edit]

Erlang[edit]

It changes given data into the binary and it outputs it in the file.

-module(codex).
-export([serialize/2]).
serialize(Filename, Term) ->
    Binary = term_to_binary(Term),
    io:format("~p~n", [Binary]),
    {ok, IoDevice} = file:open(Filename, [write]),
    file:write(IoDevice, Binary),
    file:close(IoDevice).

For example:

1> codex:serialize("binary.dat",{1,[2],true,"abc"}).       
<<131,104,4,97,1,107,0,1,2,100,0,4,116,114,117,101,107,0,3,97,98,99>>
ok

Java[edit]

The object to be serialized must implement java.io.Serializable. This example serializes a javax.swing.JButton object.

    Object object = new javax.swing.JButton("push me");
    
    try {
        // Serialize to a file
        ObjectOutput out = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("filename.ser"));
        out.writeObject(object);
        out.close();
    
        // Serialize to a byte array
        ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream() ;
        out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos) ;
        out.writeObject(object);
        out.close();
    
        // Get the bytes of the serialized object
        byte[] buf = bos.toByteArray();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // Never leave a catch empty, even temporarily.
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

• Original Source: The Java Developers Almanac 1.4

OCaml[edit]

The built-in Marshal module provides serialisation. For example:

# Marshal.to_string [1;2;3;4] [];;
- : string =
"\132\149¦¾\000\000\000\t\000\000\000\004\000\000\000\012\000\000\000\012 A B C D@"

Ruby[edit]

p Marshal.dump([1, 3.141, {:one=>1, :two=>2}, true, false])
#=> "\x04\b[\ni\x06f\r3.141\x00\xE3T{\a:\bonei\x06:\btwoi\aTF"