Serializing to disk and deserializing Scala objects using Pickling - scala

Question

Given a stream of homogeneous typed object, how would I go about serializing them to binary, writing them to disk, reading them from disk and then deserializing them using Scala Pickling?
For example:
object PicklingIteratorExample extends App {
import scala.pickling.Defaults._
import scala.pickling.binary._
import scala.pickling.static._
case class Person(name: String, age: Int)
val personsIt = Iterator.from(0).take(10).map(i => Person(i.toString, i))
val pklsIt = personsIt.map(_.pickle)
??? // Write to disk
val readIt: Iterator[Person] = ??? // Read from disk and unpickle
}

Answer 1

I find a way to so for standard files:
object PickleIOExample extends App {
import scala.pickling.Defaults._
import scala.pickling.binary._
import scala.pickling.static._
val tempPath = File.createTempFile("pickling", ".gz").getAbsolutePath
val outputStream = new FileOutputStream(tempPath)
val inputStream = new FileInputStream(tempPath)
val persons = for{
i <- 1 to 100
} yield Person(i.toString, i)
val output = new StreamOutput(outputStream)
persons.foreach(_.pickleTo(output))
outputStream.close()
val personsIt = new Iterator[Person]{
val streamPickle = BinaryPickle(inputStream)
override def hasNext: Boolean = inputStream.available > 0
override def next(): Person = streamPickle.unpickle[Person]
}
println(personsIt.mkString(", "))
inputStream.close()
}
But I am still unable to find a solution that will work with gzipped files. Since I do not know how to detect the EOF? The following throws an EOFexception since GZIPInputStream available method does not indicate the EOF:
object PickleIOExample extends App {
import scala.pickling.Defaults._
import scala.pickling.binary._
import scala.pickling.static._
val tempPath = File.createTempFile("pickling", ".gz").getAbsolutePath
val outputStream = new GZIPOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(tempPath))
val inputStream = new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream(tempPath))
val persons = for{
i <- 1 to 100
} yield Person(i.toString, i)
val output = new StreamOutput(outputStream)
persons.foreach(_.pickleTo(output))
outputStream.close()
val personsIt = new Iterator[Person]{
val streamPickle = BinaryPickle(inputStream)
override def hasNext: Boolean = inputStream.available > 0
override def next(): Person = streamPickle.unpickle[Person]
}
println(personsIt.mkString(", "))
inputStream.close()
}