Gilles created RNG-10:
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Summary: "save" and "restore" using explicit byte array
Key: RNG-10
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RNG-10
Project: Commons RNG
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Gilles
Assignee: Gilles
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 1.0
I think that the current implementation of "save" and "restore" (of the
internal state of a RNG) does not gain anything from attempting to hide (using
a marker interface) that the state is represented by a {{byte[]}} primitive
array.
Moreover, hiding the concrete class (that implements the marker interface and
{{Serializable}}) in the {{BaseProvider}} internal class is also needlessly
complicated with no clear benefit.
I propose to replace the marker interface with a concrete class that wraps a
{{byte[]}} field with a public accessor method.
As before, library users do not need to know how the actual state of a RNG is
represented by this field, but can directly serialize the {{byte[]}} field
returned by the getter.
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