python-javaobj is a python library that provides functions for reading (writing is WIP) of Java objects serialized or will be deserialized by ObjectOutputStream. This form of object representation is a standard data interchange format in Java world. javaobj module exposes an API familiar to users of the standard library marshal, pickle and json modules. ## Features ## * Java object instance unmarshaling * Java class itself unmarshaling * Primitive values unmarshaling * Automatic conversion of Java Collections to python ones (HashMap => dict, ArrayList => list, etc) ## Requirements ## * Python >= 2.6 ## Usage ## Unmarshalling of Java serialised object: ``` import javaobj jobj = self.read_file("obj5.ser") pobj = javaobj.loads(jobj) print pobj ``` Or, you can use Unmarshaller object directly: ``` import javaobj marshaller = javaobj.JavaObjectUnmarshaller(open("sunExample.ser")) pobj = marshaller.readObject() self.assertEqual(pobj.value, 17) self.assertTrue(pobj.next) pobj = marshaller.readObject() ```