Configure serialization

For data to be sent over a network between cluster members and/or clients, it needs to be serialized into raw bytes. Hazelcast has many serialization options to choose from, depending on what you plan on doing with your data.

With Operator you can configure serialization using the Hazelcast Custom Resource (CR). To understand serialization, see the Serializing objects and clases.

You can find more detailed information in the API reference.

Configure compact serialization

To configure compact serialization, define the compactSerialization section. The following configuration will register an explicit serializer com.example.FooSerializer along with a zero config serializer for the com.example.Bar class.

Compact serialization example configuration

yaml

apiVersion: hazelcast.com/v1alpha1
kind: Hazelcast
metadata:
  name: hazelcast
spec:
  serialization:
    compactSerialization:
      serializers:
      - com.example.FooSerializer
      classes:
      - com.example.Bar

Configure custom serialization

To register custom serializers, define the list of serializers and types in the serializers section. The following configuration will register two custom serializers.

Custom serializers example configuration

yaml

apiVersion: hazelcast.com/v1alpha1
kind: Hazelcast
metadata:
  name: hazelcast
spec:
  serialization:
    serializers:
    - className: com.example.FooSerializer
      typeClass: com.example.Foo
    - className: com.example.BarSerializer
      typeClass: com.example.Bar

Disallow deserialization of untrusted Java classes

To stop Hazelcast from deserializing arbitrary classes, you can allow or disallow deserialization of Java classes by class name or package name using the javaSerializationFilter option.

Java serialization filter example configuration

yaml

apiVersion: hazelcast.com/v1alpha1
kind: Hazelcast
metadata:
  name: hazelcast
spec:
  serialization:
    javaSerializationFilter:
      whitelist:
        classes:
        - example.Foo
        packages:
        - com.acme.app
        prefixes:
        - com.hazelcast.
        - java.
        - javax.
        - \[
      blacklist:
        classes:
        - com.acme.app.BeanComparator