Re: [akka-user] out-of-the-box support for json serialization for akka persistence?

2016-09-22 Thread Morten Kjetland
Hi, We have been using Akka Persistence with Json-serialization (Jackson) in production for almost two years now, and it has been a great success. Since we currently have more than 10 different applications using this technique, we build some common utilities and addons that we are using. We open

Re: [akka-user] out-of-the-box support for json serialization for akka persistence?

2016-09-21 Thread Jan-Pieter van den Heuvel
Hi Tim, You might also have a look at Stamina . Keep in mind that this only has support for spray-json. Kind regards, Jan-Pieter Op woensdag 21 september 2016 22:02:47 UTC+2 schreef Patrik Nordwall: > > For Lagom I wrote json serializer that is using Jack

Re: [akka-user] out-of-the-box support for json serialization for akka persistence?

2016-09-21 Thread Patrik Nordwall
For Lagom I wrote json serializer that is using Jackson. You can look at it for inspiration. It's stored in Cassandra as bytes, but how it's stored is less important as far as I can see. /Patrik ons 21 sep. 2016 kl. 17:58 skrev Tim Pigden : > Hi Justin > Thanks for the comments. However, as I sai

Re: [akka-user] out-of-the-box support for json serialization for akka persistence?

2016-09-21 Thread Tim Pigden
Hi Justin Thanks for the comments. However, as I said I have decided that I do want to use json asa format, so I'm really looking to see who has direct experience of that. The serialization format is less orthogonal that you might expect, given that the database table layouts are all part of th

Re: [akka-user] out-of-the-box support for json serialization for akka persistence?

2016-09-21 Thread Justin du coeur
A few general reactions (personally, I'm using Kryo over Cassandra, so I can't address the direct questions): Keep in mind that json is a relatively bulky serialization format -- it's going to take rather more disk space than more typical options like protobuf. In *general*, the serialization for