Beta8: Serialization type

[msnelling]

Hi, I'm looking at porting our app to use RawRabbit 2.0. Beta 8 defines the ISerializer interface as

  public interface ISerializer
  {
    string ContentType { get; }
    string Serialize(object obj);
    object Deserialize(Type type, string str);
    TType Deserialize<TType>(string str);
  }

How will this work if say my messages are to be serialised as binary protocol buffer messages when the Serialize() function returns a string instead of byte[]?

[pardahlman]

Hello @msnelling - thanks for reporting this.

I believe that you are right, the ISerializer assumes that you serialize to string based output (like json, xml ...). At a first glance in the code, it shouldn't be that big of an effort to update the signature, but I have to look closer at it before committing to this change.

In the mean while, it shouldn't be that difficult working around this, as the client is can easily be modified. The bytes of a published message is extracted from the serialized message (string), and it is possible to update/replace that middleware by using the fluent builder in the Plugin property of RawRabbitOptions.

[msnelling]

Thanks. I'm having trouble with the Plugin syntax, are there any examples?

[pardahlman]

You can have a look at the Enrichers in the 2.0 branch. There is unfortunately no better documentation at this point.

[pardahlman]

Hello again. I've updated the ISerializer interface so that it works with byte arrays. To verify that it works, I've also created an enricher that changes serializer to protobuf 👉 https://github.com/pardahlman/RawRabbit/blob/2.0/test/RawRabbit.IntegrationTests/Enrichers/ProtobufTests.cs

This will be part of beta9.

[msnelling]

Thanks!

[pardahlman]

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