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Felix
Felix

Reputation: 8495

Injecting special cases to Akka Serialization module

I want to add special cases to boost performance of any Akka serialization module, i.e. allowing for faster serialization of Array[Double] or any primitive types wrapped by the user. Is there a canonical way to allow custom serialization on a per-type basis?

My idea is to add a trait CanSerialize[T] which defines methods serialize(o:T):Array[Byte] and deserialize(bytes:Array[Byte]):T. Is there a way to achieve something like this without losing the benefits of Akka like pattern matching?

edit I could also be satisfied with Kryo or something else faster than Java's serializer, but there doesn't seem to be any prepackaged jar files for Kryo and Akka 2.1.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 190

Answers (1)

Patrik Nordwall
Patrik Nordwall

Reputation: 2426

You can register your own serializer for specific types.

akka.actor {
  serialization-bindings {
    "[D" = doubleBytes
  }

  serializers {
    doubleBytes = "a.b.YourDoubleArraySerializer"
  }
}

Note that [D is the class name for Array[Double].

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.1.2/scala/serialization.html

Upvotes: 2

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