using-your-own-event-serializer.md

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Using your own event serializer	6

Events will be serialized by the Spatie\EventProjector\EventSerializers\JsonEventSerializer. Like the name implies, this class can serialize an event to json so it can be easily stored in a json column in the database.

You can specify your own serializer by creating a class that implements Spatie\EventProjector\EventSerializers\EventSerializer and specifying the class in the event_serializer key of the event-projector.php config file.

This is the content of the EventSerializer interface:

namespace Spatie\EventProjector\EventSerializers;

use Spatie\EventProjector\ShouldBeStored;

interface EventSerializer
{
    public function serialize(ShouldBeStored $event): string;

    public function deserialize(string $eventClass, string $json): ShouldBeStored;
}