Storm uses Kryo to serialize Tuples. Check this https://github.com/apache/storm/blob/master/storm-core/src/jvm/org/apache/storm/serialization/KryoTupleSerializer.java
Instead of serializing the entire tuple yourself may be you just want to serialize the relevant values within the tuple. From: anshu shukla <anshushuk...@gmail.com> Reply-To: "user@storm.apache.org" <user@storm.apache.org> Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 8:40 AM To: "user@storm.apache.org" <user@storm.apache.org> Subject: Converting storm tuple to bytearray Hello, 1- Can anyone explain how to convert storm tuple to byte array. I have used the following code. private byte[] convertToBytes(Object object) throws IOException { try (ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); ObjectOutput out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos)) { out.writeObject(object); return bos.toByteArray(); } } Getting the following error : java.io.NotSerializableException: org.apache.storm.tuple.TupleImpl at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1183) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:347) at storm.starter.OurStatefulBoltByteArrayTuple.convertToBytes(OurStatefulBoltByteArrayTuple.java:200) 2- If the conversion can not be done like this then how does storm does serialization of tuple over the network. Can anyone point me out that code logic?