Hi Addison, What kind of setup do you have that is causing you to have PDX serialized objects that cannot be deserialized? Do you have classes that are present on some servers but not others?
This change would break the contract of region.get() , which is that it returns a value of a type that can be put into the region. Returning something that isn't what the user is expecting to be in the region would require users to check for PdxInstances every time they get a value -- even though the type annotations say that you can't get a PdxInstance back (except for Region<Object,Object> ). I think it would be better to have a second API that allows users to get and put PdxInstance objects in regions. That way, if they want to handle the exceptional case where they have a serialized object that can't be deserialized, they can catch the ClassNotFound exception and get the underlying PdxInstance. I do think that the possibility of a ClassNotFoundException should be documented in the Region API. Cheers, Galen On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Addison Huddy <ahu...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Hi Geode Devs, > > I'm proposing the following change to how we handle deserialization when > Domain Objects can't be found and pdx-serialize=false. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-4367 > > Looking forward to the discussion. > > \ah >