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/* * Copyright 2016 William Oemler, Blueprint Medicines * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.oncoblocks.centromere.mongodb; import com.mongodb.BasicDBObject; import com.mongodb.DBObject; import org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate; import org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MongoConverter; /** * Utility class for data imports using MongoDB. * * @author woemler */ public class ImportUtils { private final MongoTemplate mongoTemplate; public ImportUtils(MongoTemplate mongoTemplate) { this.mongoTemplate = mongoTemplate; } /** * Serializes an object into a string format that can be inserted into a MongoDB collection. * * @param entity * @return */ public String convertEntityToJson(Object entity) { MongoConverter converter = mongoTemplate.getConverter(); DBObject dbObject = new BasicDBObject(); converter.write(entity, dbObject); if (dbObject.containsField("_id") && dbObject.get("_id") == null) { dbObject.removeField("_id"); } if (dbObject.containsField("_class")) { dbObject.removeField("_class"); } return dbObject.toString(); } }