UUIDSerializer.java

package com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.UUID;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.TokenBuffer;

/**
 * Specialized {@link JsonSerializer} to output {@link java.util.UUID}s.
 * Beyond optimized access and writing of textual representation (which
 * is the default handling in most cases), it will alternatively
 * allow serialization using raw binary output (as 16-byte block)
 * if underlying data format has efficient means to access that.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class UUIDSerializer
    extends StdScalarSerializer<UUID>
{
    final static char[] HEX_CHARS = "0123456789abcdef".toCharArray();

    public UUIDSerializer() { super(UUID.class); }

    @Override
    public boolean isEmpty(SerializerProvider prov, UUID value)
    {
        // Null UUID is empty, so...
        if (value.getLeastSignificantBits() == 0L
                && value.getMostSignificantBits() == 0L) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public void serialize(UUID value, JsonGenerator gen, SerializerProvider provider)
        throws IOException
    {
        // First: perhaps we could serialize it as raw binary data?
        if (gen.canWriteBinaryNatively()) {
            /* 07-Dec-2013, tatu: One nasty case; that of TokenBuffer. While it can
             *   technically retain binary data, we do not want to do use binary
             *   with it, as that results in UUIDs getting converted to Base64 for
             *   most conversions.
             */
            if (!(gen instanceof TokenBuffer)) {
                gen.writeBinary(_asBytes(value));
                return;
            }
        }
        
        // UUID.toString() works ok functionally, but we can make it go much faster
        // (by 4x with micro-benchmark)

        final char[] ch = new char[36];
        final long msb = value.getMostSignificantBits();
        _appendInt((int) (msb >> 32), ch, 0);
        ch[8] = '-';
        int i = (int) msb;
        _appendShort(i >>> 16, ch, 9);
        ch[13] = '-';
        _appendShort(i, ch, 14);
        ch[18] = '-';

        final long lsb = value.getLeastSignificantBits();
        _appendShort((int) (lsb >>> 48), ch, 19);
        ch[23] = '-';
        _appendShort((int) (lsb >>> 32), ch, 24);
        _appendInt((int) lsb, ch, 28);

        gen.writeString(ch, 0, 36);
    }

    private static void _appendInt(int bits, char[] ch, int offset)
    {
        _appendShort(bits >> 16, ch, offset);
        _appendShort(bits, ch, offset+4);
    }
    
    private static void _appendShort(int bits, char[] ch, int offset)
    {
        ch[offset] = HEX_CHARS[(bits >> 12) & 0xF];
        ch[++offset] = HEX_CHARS[(bits >> 8) & 0xF];
        ch[++offset] = HEX_CHARS[(bits >> 4) & 0xF];
        ch[++offset] = HEX_CHARS[bits  & 0xF];

    }

    private final static byte[] _asBytes(UUID uuid)
    {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[16];
        long hi = uuid.getMostSignificantBits();
        long lo = uuid.getLeastSignificantBits();
        _appendInt((int) (hi >> 32), buffer, 0);
        _appendInt((int) hi, buffer, 4);
        _appendInt((int) (lo >> 32), buffer, 8);
        _appendInt((int) lo, buffer, 12);
        return buffer;
    }

    private final static void _appendInt(int value, byte[] buffer, int offset)
    {
        buffer[offset] = (byte) (value >> 24);
        buffer[++offset] = (byte) (value >> 16);
        buffer[++offset] = (byte) (value >> 8);
        buffer[++offset] = (byte) value;
    }
}