Serialization Configuration Wrap-Up

This section summarizes the configuration of serialization options, explained in the above sections, into all-in-one examples. The following are example serialization configurations.

Declarative Configuration:

<hazelcast>
    ...
    <serialization>
        <portable-version>2</portable-version>
        <use-native-byte-order>true</use-native-byte-order>
        <byte-order>BIG_ENDIAN</byte-order>
        <enable-compression>true</enable-compression>
        <enable-shared-object>false</enable-shared-object>
        <allow-unsafe>true</allow-unsafe>
        <data-serializable-factories>
            <data-serializable-factory factory-id="1001">
                abc.xyz.Class
            </data-serializable-factory>
        </data-serializable-factories>
        <portable-factories>
            <portable-factory factory-id="9001">
                xyz.abc.Class
            </portable-factory>
        </portable-factories>
        <serializers>
            <global-serializer>abc.Class</global-serializer>
            <serializer type-class="Employee" class-name="com.EmployeeSerializer">
            </serializer>
        </serializers>
        <check-class-def-errors>true</check-class-def-errors>
    </serialization>
    ...
</hazelcast>

Programmatic Configuration:

Config config = new Config();
SerializationConfig srzConfig = config.getSerializationConfig();
srzConfig.setPortableVersion( "2" ).setUseNativeByteOrder( true );
srzConfig.setAllowUnsafe( true ).setEnableCompression( true );
srzConfig.setCheckClassDefErrors( true );

GlobalSerializerConfig globSrzConfig = srzConfig.getGlobalSerializerConfig();
globSrzConfig.setClassName( "abc.Class" );

SerializerConfig serializerConfig = srzConfig.getSerializerConfig();
serializerConfig.setTypeClass( "Employee" )
                .setClassName( "com.EmployeeSerializer" );

Serialization configuration has the following elements.

portable-version: Defines versioning of the portable serialization. Portable version differentiates two of the same classes that have changes, such as adding/removing field or changing a type of a field.
use-native-byte-order: Set to true to use native byte order for the underlying platform. Its default value is false.
byte-order: Defines the byte order that the serialization uses: BIG_ENDIAN or LITTLE_ENDIAN. Its default value is BIG_ENDIAN.
enable-compression: Enables compression if default Java serialization is used. Its default value is false.
enable-shared-object: Enables shared object if default Java serialization is used. Its default value is false.
allow-unsafe: Set to true to allow unsafe to be used. Its default value is false.
data-serializable-factory: Custom classes implementing com.hazelcast.nio.serialization.DataSerializableFactory to be registered. These can be used to speed up serialization/deserialization of objects.
portable-factory: The PortableFactory class to be registered.
global-serializer: The global serializer class to be registered if no other serializer is applicable. This element has the optional boolean attribute override-java-serialization. If set to true, the Java serialization step is assumed to be handled by the global serializer. Java Serializable and Externalizable is prior to global serializer by default (false).
serializer: The class name of the serializer implementation.
check-class-def-errors: When set to true, the serialization system checks for class definitions error at start and throws a Serialization Exception with an error definition.

Serialization Configuration Wrap-Up

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