On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Jacob Barrett <jbarr...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> I really feel like an annotation would make the most sense. How likely is > it that the object could not be annotated or the serializer for the object > is not tightly coupled with the object? Having to map objects to > serializers externally then becomes a lot more complicated to keep > consistent. > Well, with PDX serialization there may not even be a java class, or it may not be present on the server. So annotations don't really cover all of the use cases. With the proposed API, you could plug in an annotation based serializer, if you wanted to. -Dan