Consider adding de/serialization for Throwable, Exception, ExceptionInfo

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Closed ptaoussanis closed 10 years ago

ptaoussanis commented 10 years ago

A few questions worth considering:

Is this a reasonable goal? The Reader does not support reading exception forms.
Which state should we capture? Can we drop stacktraces, keep message, causes, ExceptionInfo data?
Assuming the goal is at all sound, is there a common-enough need to bake actually this in?
Consider using Serializable?

Thoughts welcome.

ptaoussanis commented 10 years ago

Another thought: what if we instead provide a general Serializable fallback in cases where the Reader fails?

UPD: This seems like it'd be quite easy to implement - have an experiment up in the serializable branch.

ptaoussanis commented 10 years ago

Addressed with Serializable fallback - just pushed as v2.5.0-beta1.