A project that provides kryo serializers for some jdk types and some external libs like e.g. joda time.

Provided serializers / supporting classes:

• ArraysAsListSerializer - serializer for lists created via Arrays#asList(Object...)

• ClassSerializer - for class instances

• CollectionsEmptyListSerializer - for Collections#EMPTY_LIST or lists created via Collections#emptyList()

• CollectionsEmptyMapSerializer - for Collections#EMPTY_MAP or maps created via Collections#emptyMap()

• CollectionsEmptySetSerializer - for Collections#EMPTY_SET or sets created via Collections#emptySet()

• CollectionsSingletonListSerializer - for lists created via Collections#singletonList(Object)

• CollectionsSingletonMapSerializer - for maps created via Collections#singletonMap(Object, Object)

• CollectionsSingletonSetSerializer - for sets created via Collections#singleton(Object)

• CopyForIterateCollectionSerializer - creates a copy of the source collection for writing object data.

• CopyForIterateMapSerializer - creates a copy of the source map for writing object data.

• CurrencySerializer - serializer for Currency

• EnumMapSerializer - serializer for EnumMap

• EnumSetSerializer - serializer for EnumSet

• GregorianCalendarSerializer - optimized serializer for (Gregorian)Calendar (24 bytes vs. 1323 bytes with FieldSerializer)

• JdkProxySerializer - for jdk proxies (proxies created via Proxy.newProxyInstance)

• KryoReflectionFactorySupport - kryo specialization that uses sun's ReflectionFactory to create new instances for classes without a default constructor

• ReferenceFieldSerializerReflectionFactorySupport - a ReferenceFieldSerializer specialization that uses sun's ReflectionFactory to create new instances

• StringBufferSerializer - optimized serializer for StringBuffer

• StringBuilderSerializer - optimized serializer for StringBuilder

• SubListSerializer - serializer for lists created via List#subList(int, int)

• SynchronizedCollectionsSerializer - for synchronized Collections and Maps created via Collections.synchronized*.

• UnmodifiableCollectionsSerializer - for unmodifiable Collections and Maps created via Collections.unmodifiable*.

• cglib/CGLibProxySerializer - serializer for CGLib proxies

• jodatime/JodaDateTimeSerializer - serializer for joda's DateTime

• wicket/MiniMapSerializer - serializer for wicket's MiniMap

Usage

To be able to use the serializers you have to add the jar to your classpath. If your build tool support maven repositories you can use this dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>de.javakaffee</groupId>
    <artifactId>kryo-serializers</artifactId>
    <version>0.9</version>
</dependency>

It's available in maven central, so you don't need an additional repository definition. If you're managing the classpath differently you can get the jar from the downloads section or download from maven central.

After that's done you can register the custom serializers at the kryo instance. The following code snippet shows how this is done for serializers that can be registered statically (directly for a known class).

kryo.register( Arrays.asList( "" ).getClass(), new ArraysAsListSerializer( kryo ) );
kryo.register( Class.class, new ClassSerializer( kryo ) );
kryo.register( Collections.EMPTY_LIST.getClass(), new CollectionsEmptyListSerializer() );
kryo.register( Collections.EMPTY_MAP.getClass(), new CollectionsEmptyMapSerializer() );
kryo.register( Collections.EMPTY_SET.getClass(), new CollectionsEmptySetSerializer() );
kryo.register( Collections.singletonList( "" ).getClass(), new CollectionsSingletonListSerializer( kryo ) );
kryo.register( Collections.singleton( "" ).getClass(), new CollectionsSingletonSetSerializer( kryo ) );
kryo.register( Collections.singletonMap( "", "" ).getClass(), new CollectionsSingletonMapSerializer( kryo ) );
kryo.register( Currency.class, new CurrencySerializer( kryo ) );
kryo.register( GregorianCalendar.class, new GregorianCalendarSerializer() );
kryo.register( InvocationHandler.class, new JdkProxySerializer( kryo ) );
kryo.register( StringBuffer.class, new StringBufferSerializer( kryo ) );
kryo.register( StringBuilder.class, new StringBuilderSerializer( kryo ) );
UnmodifiableCollectionsSerializer.registerSerializers( kryo );
SynchronizedCollectionsSerializer.registerSerializers( kryo );

// custom serializers for non-jdk libs

// register CGLibProxySerializer, works in combination with the appropriate action in handleUnregisteredClass (see below)
kryo.register( CGLibProxySerializer.CGLibProxyMarker.class, new CGLibProxySerializer( kryo ) );
// joda datetime
kryo.register( DateTime.class, new JodaDateTimeSerializer() );
// wicket
kryo.register( MiniMap.class, new MiniMapSerializer( kryo ) );

The following code snippet shows how to use the KryoReflectionFactorySupport (can only be used with sun/oracly jdk!) and how other serializers are registered via the newSerializer method. If you don't want to use the KryoReflectionFactorySupport you can override the newSerializer method for your new Kryo() instance.

final Kryo kryo = new KryoReflectionFactorySupport() {
    
    @Override
    public Serializer newSerializer(final Class clazz) {
        if ( EnumSet.class.isAssignableFrom( clazz ) ) {
            return new EnumSetSerializer( this );
        }
        if ( EnumMap.class.isAssignableFrom( clazz ) ) {
            return new EnumMapSerializer( this );
        }
        if ( SubListSerializer.canSerialize( clazz ) ) {
            return new SubListSerializer( this );
        }
        if ( ClassWithEvilDefaultConstructor.class.isAssignableFrom( type ) ) {
            // for this class we want to create new instances via ReflectionFactory, not by calling the default constructor
            // can only be used with sun/oracle jdk
            final ReferenceFieldSerializerReflectionFactorySupport result = new ReferenceFieldSerializerReflectionFactorySupport( _kryo, type );
            result.setIgnoreSyntheticFields( false );
            return result;
        }
        if ( copyCollectionsForSerialization ) {
            if ( Collection.class.isAssignableFrom( clazz ) ) {
                return new CopyForIterateCollectionSerializer( this );
            }
            if ( Map.class.isAssignableFrom( clazz ) ) {
                return new CopyForIterateMapSerializer( this );
            }
        }
        return super.newSerializer( clazz );
    }
    
    @Override
    public boolean handleUnregisteredClass( final Class<?> type ) {
        // see if the given class is a cglib proxy
        if ( CGLibProxySerializer.canSerialize( type ) ) {
            // register the CGLibProxySerializer for this class
            _kryo.register( type, _kryo.getRegisteredClass( CGLibProxySerializer.CGLibProxyMarker.class ) );
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
    
};

Where to get help

You can contact me via github or submit an issue.

How to contribute

If you want to contribute to this project you can fork the sources on github, make your changes and submit a pull request. Alternatively you can submit an issue with a patch attached.