Dealing with Not Serializable classes in Java

[Dominik Wosiński]

Hey, 

I was wondering how do You normally deal with fields that contain references that are not serializable. Say, we have a custom serialization schema in Java that needs to serialize LocalDateTime field with ObjectMapper.  This requires registering specific module for ObjectMapper and this makes it not serializable (module contains some references to classes that are not serializable). 
Now, if You would initialize ObjectMapper directly in the field this will cause an exception when deploying the job. 

Normally I would do : 

@Override
public byte[] serialize(Backup backupMessage) {
    if(objectMapper == null) {
        objectMapper = new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
    }
...
}

But I was wondering whether do You have any prettier option of doing this? 

Thanks,
Dominik.

[Chesnay Schepler]

The null check in the method is the general-purpose way of solving it.
If the ObjectMapper is thread-safe you could also initialize it as a static field.

On 26.08.2018 17:58, Dominik Wosiński wrote:

Hey, 

I was wondering how do You normally deal with fields that contain references that are not serializable. Say, we have a custom serialization schema in Java that needs to serialize LocalDateTime field with ObjectMapper.  This requires registering specific module for ObjectMapper and this makes it not serializable (module contains some references to classes that are not serializable). 
Now, if You would initialize ObjectMapper directly in the field this will cause an exception when deploying the job. 

Normally I would do : 

@Override
public byte[] serialize(Backup backupMessage) {
    if(objectMapper == null) {
        objectMapper = new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
    }
...
}

But I was wondering whether do You have any prettier option of doing this? 

Thanks,
Dominik.

[Dominik Wosiński]

Hey Paul,
Yeah that is possible, but I was asking in terms of serialization schema. So I would really want to avoid RichFunction :)

Best Regards,
Dominik.

pon., 27 sie 2018 o 10:23 Chesnay Schepler <[hidden email]> napisał(a):

The null check in the method is the general-purpose way of solving it.
If the ObjectMapper is thread-safe you could also initialize it as a static field.

On 26.08.2018 17:58, Dominik Wosiński wrote:

Hey, 

I was wondering how do You normally deal with fields that contain references that are not serializable. Say, we have a custom serialization schema in Java that needs to serialize LocalDateTime field with ObjectMapper.  This requires registering specific module for ObjectMapper and this makes it not serializable (module contains some references to classes that are not serializable). 
Now, if You would initialize ObjectMapper directly in the field this will cause an exception when deploying the job. 

Normally I would do : 

@Override
public byte[] serialize(Backup backupMessage) {
    if(objectMapper == null) {
        objectMapper = new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
    }
...
}

But I was wondering whether do You have any prettier option of doing this? 

Thanks,
Dominik.

[Chesnay Schepler]

You don't need RichFunctions for that, you should be able to just do:

private static final ObjectMapper objectMapper =
	new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());

On 27.08.2018 10:28, Dominik Wosiński wrote:

Hey Paul,
Yeah that is possible, but I was asking in terms of serialization schema. So I would really want to avoid RichFunction :)

Best Regards,
Dominik.

pon., 27 sie 2018 o 10:23 Chesnay Schepler <[hidden email]> napisał(a):

The null check in the method is the general-purpose way of solving it.
If the ObjectMapper is thread-safe you could also initialize it as a static field.

On 26.08.2018 17:58, Dominik Wosiński wrote:

Hey, 

I was wondering how do You normally deal with fields that contain references that are not serializable. Say, we have a custom serialization schema in Java that needs to serialize LocalDateTime field with ObjectMapper.  This requires registering specific module for ObjectMapper and this makes it not serializable (module contains some references to classes that are not serializable). 
Now, if You would initialize ObjectMapper directly in the field this will cause an exception when deploying the job. 

Normally I would do : 

@Override
public byte[] serialize(Backup backupMessage) {
    if(objectMapper == null) {
        objectMapper = new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
    }
...
}

But I was wondering whether do You have any prettier option of doing this? 

Thanks,
Dominik.

[Dominik Wosiński]

Hey ;) 

I have received one response that was sent directly to my email and not to user group :

Hi Dominik,

I think you can put the unserializable fields into RichFunctions and initiate them in the `open` method, so the the fields won’t need to be serialized with the tasks.

Best,

Paul Lam

And my response about RichFunctions was meant for Paul :) 

Pon., 27.08.2018, 10:38 użytkownik Chesnay Schepler <[hidden email]> napisał:

You don't need RichFunctions for that, you should be able to just do:

private static final ObjectMapper objectMapper =
	new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());

On 27.08.2018 10:28, Dominik Wosiński wrote:

Hey Paul,
Yeah that is possible, but I was asking in terms of serialization schema. So I would really want to avoid RichFunction :)

Best Regards,
Dominik.

pon., 27 sie 2018 o 10:23 Chesnay Schepler <[hidden email]> napisał(a):

The null check in the method is the general-purpose way of solving it.
If the ObjectMapper is thread-safe you could also initialize it as a static field.

On 26.08.2018 17:58, Dominik Wosiński wrote:

Hey, 

I was wondering how do You normally deal with fields that contain references that are not serializable. Say, we have a custom serialization schema in Java that needs to serialize LocalDateTime field with ObjectMapper.  This requires registering specific module for ObjectMapper and this makes it not serializable (module contains some references to classes that are not serializable). 
Now, if You would initialize ObjectMapper directly in the field this will cause an exception when deploying the job. 

Normally I would do : 

@Override
public byte[] serialize(Backup backupMessage) {
    if(objectMapper == null) {
        objectMapper = new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
    }
...
}

But I was wondering whether do You have any prettier option of doing this? 

Thanks,
Dominik.