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I have a file which apparently contains serialized structures. The first 26 bytes contain the string "java.util.HashMap", so I am sure that this file holds serialized data.
Is there is nice tool maybe with a simple UI, where I can show the structured data?
I googled for it for a while, but I didn't find any proper resources. It should run preferred on Windows. Linux would be fine too but is overhead for me.
There is tool from Google called "jdeserialize":
jdeserialize is a library that interprets Java serialized objects -- the data generated by an ObjectOutputStream. It also comes with a command-line tool that can generate compilable class declarations, extract block data, and print textual representations of instance values.
Project site of jdeserialize
Git repository of jdeserialize
There is also a Java library called "Serialysis", that can be used to generate human-readable output of a serialized object, like so:
SEntity sint = SerialScan.examine(new Integer(5));
System.out.println(sint);
...produces this output:
SObject(java.lang.Integer) {
value = Prim(int){5}
}
Explanation of how Serialysis works
Git repository of Serialysis
Since both projects are written in Java, you can use them in both Windows and Linux.
