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Hi

I serialize objects and then encode them using base64, which the server returns to the client.
The
client receives a byte array object, but I cannot decode it using
org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64. When I do Base64.decodeBase64() it says res is not
a byte
array. However the code below says the object is a byte array. How do you convert res to the
original object (in my case it's a object implementing SecretKey)?

Thanks, Rudi

Object res = xmlrpcclient.execute("method", params);
Class clazz = res.getClass();
if (clazz.isArray() && clazz.getComponentType().equals(byte.class)) {
   System.out.println("TRUE");  // res is a base64 encoded array 
}


Code for serializing and encoding:

public static byte[] encode(Object obj) {
	try {
		ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
		ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos);
		oos.writeObject(obj);
		oos.close();
		byte[] bytearray = baos.toByteArray();
	      return Base64.encodeBase64(bytearray);
	} catch (IOException e) {
		// TODO Auto-generated catch block
		e.printStackTrace();
	}
	return null;
}
	
public static Object decode(byte[] encoded) {
	try {
		byte[] decoded = Base64.decodeBase64(encoded);
		ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(decoded);
		ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(bais);
		return ois.readObject();
	} catch (IOException e) {
		// TODO Auto-generated catch block
		e.printStackTrace();
	} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
		// TODO Auto-generated catch block
		e.printStackTrace();
	}
	return null;
}



		
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