From 749f0066218c785edb208881b2d746e49e97c986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kristian S. Stangeland" <kr_stang@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 03:33:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add the ability to serialize ItemStacks to strings.

---
 .../protocol/utility/StreamSerializer.java    | 37 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ProtocolLib/src/main/java/com/comphenix/protocol/utility/StreamSerializer.java b/ProtocolLib/src/main/java/com/comphenix/protocol/utility/StreamSerializer.java
index 2edbb3cf..5203a22d 100644
--- a/ProtocolLib/src/main/java/com/comphenix/protocol/utility/StreamSerializer.java
+++ b/ProtocolLib/src/main/java/com/comphenix/protocol/utility/StreamSerializer.java
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 package com.comphenix.protocol.utility;
 
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.DataInputStream;
 import java.io.DataOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.math.BigInteger;
 
 import org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack;
 
@@ -46,6 +49,24 @@ public class StreamSerializer {
 		}
 	}
 	
+	/**
+	 * Deserialize an item stack from a base-32 encoded string.
+	 * @param input - base-32 encoded string.
+	 * @return A deserialized item stack.
+	 * @throws IOException If the operation failed due to reflection or corrupt data.
+	 */
+	public ItemStack deserializeItemStack(String input) throws IOException {
+		try {
+			BigInteger base32 = new BigInteger(input, 32);
+			ByteArrayInputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(base32.toByteArray());
+			
+			return deserializeItemStack(new DataInputStream(inputStream));
+			
+		} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+			throw new IOException("Input is not valid base 32.", e);
+		}
+	}
+	
 	/**
 	 * Write or serialize an item stack to the given output stream.
 	 * <p>
@@ -70,4 +91,20 @@ public class StreamSerializer {
 			throw new IOException("Cannot write item stack " + stack, e);
 		}
 	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Serialize an item stack as a base-32 encoded string.
+	 * @param stack - the item stack to serialize.
+	 * @return A base-32 representation of the given item stack.
+	 * @throws IOException If the operation fails due to reflection problems.
+	 */
+	public String serializeItemStack(ItemStack stack) throws IOException {
+		 ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+		 DataOutputStream dataOutput = new DataOutputStream(outputStream);
+		 
+		 serializeItemStack(dataOutput, stack);
+		 
+		 // Serialize that array
+		 return new BigInteger(1, outputStream.toByteArray()).toString(32);
+	}
 }