[GEODE-4961] Add a customizable value encoding to the protobuf protocol

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.0
• Component/s: client/server
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Dan Smith
• Reporter: Dan Smith
• Created: 29/Mar/18 00:56
• Updated: 02/Oct/18 07:09
• Resolved: 02/Oct/18 07:09

Description

All values sent using the protobuf client/server protocol are currently encoded using JSON if they are not primitives.

Users may want to serialize their objects in some other format than JSON. In order to accomplish this, we should add a way to control the serialization format.

We can do this by adding the CustomValueSerializer described in this wiki page - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75975878

We should also add support to the geode-experimental-driver module to allow users of  that driver to customize the serialization of their objects.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1716