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<div class="block">Convenience method that serializes given value but so that results are
 stored in a newly constructed <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><code>Properties</code></a>. Functionally equivalent
 to serializing in a File and reading contents into <a href=