In Niagara Ax, a bog file is nothing but a zipped xml. Whenever we need to serialize a BComponent as a file in the station files structure, we can use the below code to achieve the same.

/**
 Copy a BComponent to a bogFile
 @param comp : The source component
 @param bogFile : The bogfile to be persisted to.
*/
 public static void copyComponentToBog(BComponent comp,BIFile bogFile) throws IOException {
      BogEncoder bogencoder = new  BogEncoder(bogFile.getOutputStream());
      bogencoder.setZipped(true);
      bogencoder.encodeDocument(comp);
      bogencoder.close();
    }

Vice-verse, to decode or convert a bog file to a component you can use BodDecoder class as shown below.

    /**
     * Decode a bog file and return its BComponent object.
     * @param sourceFile : The source bog file
     * @return BComponent
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public static BComponent bogFileToComponent(BIFile sourceFile throws Exception {
      BogDecoder bogDec = null;
      try{
          BogDecoder bogDec = new BogDecoder(file);
          BComponent component = ((BComponent)(bogDec.decodeDocument()));

         }finally{
          if(null != bogDec){
           bogDec.close();
          }
         }
      return component;
    }

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