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+/*
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 by The Regents of the University of California
+ * 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 from
+ * 
+ *     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 edu.uci.ics.asterix.result;
+
+import java.io.DataInputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+
+import org.json.JSONException;
+
+import twitter4j.internal.org.json.JSONArray;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.asterix.om.base.IAObject;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.RecordDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.FrameTupleAccessor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.util.ByteBufferInputStream;
+
+public class ReaderUtils {
+    public static JSONArray getJSONFromBuffer(ByteBuffer buffer, FrameTupleAccessor fta,
+            RecordDescriptor recordDescriptor) throws HyracksDataException {
+        JSONArray resultRecords = new JSONArray();
+        ByteBufferInputStream bbis = new ByteBufferInputStream();
+        DataInputStream di = new DataInputStream(bbis);
+
+        try {
+            fta.reset(buffer);
+            for (int tIndex = 0; tIndex < fta.getTupleCount(); tIndex++) {
+                int start = fta.getTupleStartOffset(tIndex) + fta.getFieldSlotsLength();
+                bbis.setByteBuffer(buffer, start);
+                Object[] record = new Object[recordDescriptor.getFieldCount()];
+                JSONArray resultRecord = new JSONArray();
+                for (int i = 0; i < record.length; ++i) {
+                    IAObject instance = (IAObject) recordDescriptor.getFields()[i].deserialize(di);
+                    resultRecord.put(instance.toJSON());
+                }
+                resultRecords.put(resultRecord);
+            }
+        } catch (JSONException e) {
+            throw new HyracksDataException(e);
+        }
+        return resultRecords;
+    }
+}