Protobuf, sometimes JSON are the dominating ones I think.

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On 9 December 2016 at 18:33:42, Richard Rodseth ([email protected]) wrote:

> Yes, I've read the docs. Would you say most Lightbend customers use
> Protobuf? I was leaning towards Avro since it seems to be popular in Kafka
> land.
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Konrad Malawski <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Richard,
>> I fear not that many people use Avro.
>> But I can in general answer your question about SerializerWithStringManif
>> est - yeah it's usually the right way, since it's the most evolvable
>> (you could even remove classes since it's not keyed by classes strictly).
>> So that seems fine.
>>
>> Making sure you've seen: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/
>> persistence-schema-evolution.html
>>
>> Happy hakking
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:53 AM, Richard Rodseth <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone else using Avro and avro4s to serialize persistence events? I was
>>> able to get the SerializerWithStringManifest below working (with
>>> generic serialize and deserialize methods). Should I be extending something
>>> other than SerializerWithStringManifest, given that Avro on its own
>>> helps with schema evolution?
>>>
>>> Note: avro4s seems very promising, although I did run into this
>>> limitation
>>> https://github.com/sksamuel/avro4s/issues/75
>>>
>>> class PersistenceEventsAvroSerializer extends
>>> SerializerWithStringManifest {
>>>
>>>   val FooManifest = "Foo"
>>>
>>>   val BarManifest = "Bar"
>>>
>>>   def identifier = 1234567
>>>
>>>  override def manifest(obj: AnyRef): String =
>>>
>>>     obj match {
>>>
>>>       case _: Bar => BarManifest
>>>
>>>       case _: Foo => FooManifest
>>>
>>>     }
>>>
>>>  override def toBinary(obj: AnyRef): Array[Byte] = {
>>>
>>>    obj match {
>>>
>>>       case foo: Foo => serialize[Foo](foo)
>>>
>>>       case bsr: Bar => serialize[Bar](bar)
>>>
>>>     }
>>>
>>>   }
>>>
>>>  override def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], manifest: String): AnyRef
>>> = {
>>>
>>>     manifest match {
>>>
>>>       case FooManifest => deserialize[Foo](bytes)
>>>
>>>       case BarManifest => deserialize[Bar](bytes)
>>>
>>>     }
>>>
>>>   }
>>>
>>>   private def serialize[T](data: T)(implicit s: SchemaFor[T], r:
>>> ToRecord[T]): Array[Byte] = {
>>>
>>>     val baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream
>>>
>>>     val output = AvroOutputStream.binary[T](baos)
>>>
>>>     output.write(data)
>>>
>>>     output.close()
>>>
>>>     val result = baos.toByteArray()
>>>
>>>     result
>>>
>>>   }
>>>
>>>
>>>   private def deserialize[T](data: Array[Byte])(implicit s:
>>> SchemaFor[T], r: FromRecord[T]): T = {
>>>
>>>
>>>     val input = AvroInputStream.binary[T](data)
>>>
>>>     val result: T = if (input.iterator.isEmpty) {
>>>
>>>       ??? // TODO Check
>>>
>>>     } else {
>>>
>>>       input.iterator.toSeq.head
>>>
>>>     }
>>>
>>>     result
>>>
>>>   }
>>>
>>>
>>> }
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