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taoensso / carmine

Redis client + message queue for Clojure
https://www.taoensso.com/carmine
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Pluggable serialization methods #162

Closed robert-zaremba closed 7 years ago

robert-zaremba commented 8 years ago

Would be great to have an option to change the serialization mechanism (eg MessagePack) instead of sticking to Nippy.

ptaoussanis commented 8 years ago

Hi Robert, would be open to this + should be an easy mod.

Am curious what the motivation is in your case?

robert-zaremba commented 8 years ago

Great. I have other application (written in Go) which serializes complex structures using MessagePack. I would like to this data from Clojure.

ptaoussanis commented 7 years ago

In hindsight, actually closing this for now. If folks would like to user other serialization formats, that's simple enough by just reading the key as a string and using whatever method you'd prefer.

Adding all the machinery to try do this automatically while still keeping it flexible would bring a lot of complexity for very little value.

Even the current auto serialization is a little dubious. Overall think it's worth the extra convenience, but only barely. In most cases I'd recommend making serialization (with any format) explicit in the same way.