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Gilles resolved RNG-10.
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Resolution: Fixed
Merged into "master".
> "save" and "restore" using explicit byte array
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> Key: RNG-10
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RNG-10
> Project: Commons RNG
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Gilles
> Assignee: Gilles
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: api
> Fix For: 1.0
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> 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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