Github user dalaro commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/pull/325 The problem is that GryoSerializer doesn't actually work. This is not the first time it has shown behavior on Spark or scala runtime classes which diverges from the behavior of Spark's KryoSerializer/JavaSerializer. I realize that asking users to write custom serializers against the shim (to be compatible with everything) in the long term or to duplicate registrations in the short term (if they want to use Gryo in one place and Spark graph computation in another, using the same custom types) is not ideal, but I think the status quo is even worse.
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