The Akka remote protocol is based on Protobuf where the user message is a
byte(s) payload, so there is no bytebuffer to get ahold of.

Cheers,
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On Jan 17, 2014 9:04 PM, "Rajiv Kurian" <[email protected]> wrote:

> The current 
> serialization<http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/serialization.html> 
> has
> the following signature:
>
>
>    1. // "toBinary" serializes the given object to an Array of Bytes
>    2. def toBinary(obj: AnyRef): Array[Byte] = {
>    3. // Put the code that serializes the object here
>    4. // ... ...
>    5.  }
>    6.
>    7. // "fromBinary" deserializes the given array,
>    8. // using the type hint (if any, see "includeManifest" above)
>    9. // into the optionally provided classLoader.
>    10. def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte],
>    11. clazz: Option[Class[_]]): AnyRef = {
>    12. // Put your code that deserializes here
>    13. // ... ...
>    14.  }
>
>
> Is it possible to actually to get a reference to the underlying direct
> byte buffer instead? Conversely would it be possible to output a direct
> byte buffer too. Motivation: I am trying to write an Akka serializer for my
> own classes that are generated by the Simple Binary 
> Encoding<https://github.com/real-logic/simple-binary-encoding> project.
> Simple Binary protocol uses a flyweight pattern on top of byte buffers
> avoiding a serialization/deserialization step. The benefit is lost a bit if
> I need to convert direct byte buffers to/from byte arrays.
>
> Thanks,
> Rajiv
>
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