[HELIX-107] Add support to set custom objects into ZNRecord

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.2-incubating
• Component/s: helix-core, helix-webapp-admin
• Assignee: Kanak Biscuitwala
• Reporter: kishore gopalakrishna
• Created: 22/May/13 03:53
• Updated: 03/Aug/13 00:20
• Resolved: 02/Aug/13 23:52

Description

Currently all data has to be represented in form of simple fields, mapFields and listFields. This was done so that we can write custom serializer/deserialier so that we get good performance. We saw 30% improvement, however this has impacted code readability.

we need to come up with a way where we can set the application specific data using custom serializer and strongly typed object. For example, we can support znrecord.setAdditionalInfo(<T> t) where we can T can implement serialize/deserialize method.