Java Deserialization for Go

A Go port of nodeJavaDeserialization.

Much like the original, we:

... make no claims of completeness or correctness. But if you need to deserialize some Java objects using [Go], then you might prefer building on this over starting from scratch.

Usage

objects, err := jserial.ParseSerializedObjectMinimal(buf) 
if err != nil {
    log.Fatalf("%+v", err)
}

jsonStr, err := json.MarshalIndent(objects, "", "    ")
if err != nil {
    log.Fatalf("%+v", err)
}

fmt.Println(string(jsonStr))

Usage with io.Reader

sop := jserial.NewSerializedObjectParser(reader)

objects, err := sop.ParseSerializedObjectMinimal() 
if err != nil {
    log.Fatalf("%+v", err)
}

jsonStr, err := json.MarshalIndent(objects, "", "    ")
if err != nil {
    log.Fatalf("%+v", err)
}

fmt.Println(string(jsonStr))

Most of the time you will likely want to use ParseSerializedObjectMinimal which returns a simplified / JSON-like object representation. However, ParseSerializedObject is available if you need to inspect the detailed class info.

If you do need the detailed class info you can use ParseSerializedObject directly which more closely matches nodeJavaDeserialization's object representation:

Each object in objects will contain the values of its "normal" fields as properties, and two hidden properties. One is called class and represents the class of the object, with super pointing at its parent class. The other is extends which is a map from fully qualified class names to the fields associated with that class. If one wants to inspect the private field of some specific class, using extends will help in cases where a more derived class contains another field of the same name. The names class and extends were deliberately chosen in such a way that they are keywords in Java and won't occur in normal field names.

Custom deserialization code

If the class contained custom serialization code, the output from that is collected in a special property called @. One can write post-processing code to reformat the data from that list. Such code has already been added for the following types:

• java.util.ArrayList - sets a value field which is a Go []interface{}
• java.util.ArrayDeque – sets a value field which is a Go slice []interface{}
• java.util.Hashtable – sets a value field which is a Go map[string]interface{}
• java.util.HashMap – sets a value field which is a Go map[string]interface{}
• java.util.EnumMap – sets a value field which is a Go map[string]interface{} with enum constant names as keys
• java.util.HashSet – sets a value field which is a Go map[string]bool
• java.util.Date – sets a value field which is a Go time.Time

Fuzzing

• cd $GOPATH/src
• go get -u github.com/dvyukov/go-fuzz/...
• go-fuzz-build github.com/jkeys089/jserial
• go-fuzz -bin=jserial-fuzz.zip -workdir=github.com/jkeys089/jserial/fuzzdata

Contributing

Bug reports, suggestions, code contributions and the likes should go to the project's GitHub page.