On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Marcel Overdijk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I have a custom `JsonSerializer` defined via @JsonSerialize does it it
> create only 1 instance of the `JsonSerializer` or multiple?
>
>
> @JsonSerialize(using = JsonapiDocument.JsonapiDocumentSerializer::class)
> class JsonapiDocument
>
> I need to introspect the class to be serialized and want to cache this
> information in the Serializer.
> But to do this I want to make sure that only 1 instance of the Serializer is
> created?
>
>
> In the apidocs of the `JsonSerializer` I could't find any information /
> statement regarding this.
If I understand your case correctly, only one instance is created and
cached for lookup
purposes.
This assumes that annotation is on class; if annotation is on a
property I'd have to check to make
sure whether caching is involved at all.
However: lookup and caching is just the initial part. Many
(de)serializers are further configured by
contextual information (mostly annotations on property accessor(s)) --
if serializer implements
`ContextualSerializer`, then its `createContextual(...)` method is
called when serializer is needed for
specific property (and once for root value, if used for root value).
So, only one instance should be created. I would not count on this as
anything more than as implementation
detail, however -- cache sizes are often bounded (... and in this
particular case, will be bounded in Jackson 3.0;
2.x does not limit it unfortunately) so there is no strict guarantee
that only one instance is ever created.
If such a guarantee is required, it could be achieved in at least 2 ways:
1. Canonicalize in `createContextual()` (that is, verify that `this`
is singleton instance; or if not, return that singleton
instance)
2. Use `Module` for providing serializer instead.
and I guess I would go with (1). But this is only assuming it is
critical that just one serializer instance is used.
-+ Tatu +-
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