I think the serialization code is in the org.globus.delegation.service.DelegationResource store() and load() methods in ws-delegation/service/java/source/src/org/globus/delegation/service/DelegationResource.java which use java.io.ObjectInputStream and java.io.ObjectOutputStream.
On 1/25/11 1:50 AM, Christopher Kunz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing here in the hopes that someone has an idea about what I'm > seeing (and/or could maybe forward to gt-dev). > > I'm trying to manually deserialize the contents of the > .globus/persisted/<ip-port>/DelegatedResource directory on a GT 4.0.x > container. The serialized files contain the credentials (which I'm after > for my Auditing project), but these aren't fully plaintext. There's > control characters in regular distances within the credentials, > rendering them unusable. > > I have manually found out that the characters are a "z", followed by two > to four bytes of non-ASCII stuff. However, I have got no idea what > brings them there. > >>From browsing the source I think I have deducted that the serialization > process inherits from the BeanSerialization class, but I'm not sure > where exactly the DelegatedResource handling is in the Container code. > > Can someone point me in the right direction? > > Regards, > > --ck
