package akka.serialization /** * Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Typesafe Inc. */ import java.io.{ ObjectOutputStream, ByteArrayOutputStream, ObjectInputStream, ByteArrayInputStream } import java.util.concurrent.Callable import akka.util.ClassLoaderObjectInputStream import akka.actor.ExtendedActorSystem import scala.util.DynamicVariable import akka.serialization.JavaSerializer.CurrentSystem /** * A Serializer represents a bimap between an object and an array of bytes representing that object. * * Serializers are loaded using reflection during [[akka.actor.ActorSystem]] * start-up, where two constructors are tried in order: * * * * Be sure to always use the PropertyManager for loading classes! This is necessary to * avoid strange match errors and inequalities which arise from different class loaders loading * the same class. */ trait Serializer { /** * Completely unique value to identify this implementation of Serializer, used to optimize network traffic. * Values from 0 to 16 are reserved for Akka internal usage. */ def identifier: Int /** * Serializes the given object into an Array of Byte */ def toBinary(o: AnyRef): Array[Byte] /** * Returns whether this serializer needs a manifest in the fromBinary method */ def includeManifest: Boolean /** * Produces an object from an array of bytes, with an optional type-hint; * the class should be loaded using ActorSystem.dynamicAccess. */ def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], manifest: Option[Class[_]]): AnyRef /** * Java API: deserialize without type hint */ final def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte]): AnyRef = fromBinary(bytes, None) /** * Java API: deserialize with type hint */ final def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], clazz: Class[_]): AnyRef = fromBinary(bytes, Option(clazz)) } /** * Base serializer trait with serialization identifiers configuration contract, * when globally unique serialization identifier is configured in the `reference.conf`. */ trait BaseSerializer extends Serializer { /** * Actor system which is required by most serializer implementations. */ val system: ExtendedActorSystem /** * Configuration namespace of serialization identifiers in the `reference.conf`. * * Each serializer implementation must have an entry in the following format: * `akka.actor.serialization-identifiers."FQCN" = ID` * where `FQCN` is fully qualified class name of the serializer implementation * and `ID` is globally unique serializer identifier number. */ final val SerializationIdentifiers = "akka.actor.serialization-identifiers" /** * Globally unique serialization identifier configured in the `reference.conf`. * * See [[Serializer#identifier()]]. */ final override val identifier: Int = system.settings.config.getInt(s"""${SerializationIdentifiers}."${getClass.getName}"""") } /** * Java API for creating a Serializer: make sure to include a constructor which * takes exactly one argument of type [[akka.actor.ExtendedActorSystem]], because * that is the preferred constructor which will be invoked when reflectively instantiating * the JSerializer (also possible with empty constructor). */ abstract class JSerializer extends Serializer { final def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], manifest: Option[Class[_]]): AnyRef = fromBinaryJava(bytes, manifest.orNull) /** * This method must be implemented, manifest may be null. */ protected def fromBinaryJava(bytes: Array[Byte], manifest: Class[_]): AnyRef } object NullSerializer extends NullSerializer object JavaSerializer { /** * This holds a reference to the current ActorSystem (the surrounding context) * during serialization and deserialization. * * If you are using Serializers yourself, outside of SerializationExtension, * you'll need to surround the serialization/deserialization with: * * currentSystem.withValue(system) { * ...code... * } * * or * * currentSystem.withValue(system, callable) */ val currentSystem = new CurrentSystem final class CurrentSystem extends DynamicVariable[ExtendedActorSystem](null) { /** * Java API: invoke the callable with the current system being set to the given value for this thread. * * @param value - the current value under the call to callable.call() * @param callable - the operation to be performed * @tparam S - the return type * @return the result of callable.call() */ def withValue[S](value: ExtendedActorSystem, callable: Callable[S]): S = super.withValue[S](value)(callable.call) } } /** * This Serializer uses standard Java Serialization */ class JavaSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer { def includeManifest: Boolean = false def toBinary(o: AnyRef): Array[Byte] = { val bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream val out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos) JavaSerializer.currentSystem.withValue(system) { out.writeObject(o) } out.close() bos.toByteArray } def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], clazz: Option[Class[_]]): AnyRef = { val in = new ClassLoaderObjectInputStream(system.dynamicAccess.classLoader, new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes)) val obj = JavaSerializer.currentSystem.withValue(system) { in.readObject } in.close() obj } } /** * This is a special Serializer that Serializes and deserializes nulls only */ class NullSerializer extends Serializer { val nullAsBytes = Array[Byte]() def includeManifest: Boolean = false def identifier = 0 def toBinary(o: AnyRef) = nullAsBytes def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], clazz: Option[Class[_]]): AnyRef = null } /** * This is a special Serializer that Serializes and deserializes byte arrays only, * (just returns the byte array unchanged/uncopied) */ class ByteArraySerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer { def includeManifest: Boolean = false def toBinary(o: AnyRef) = o match { case null ⇒ null case o: Array[Byte] ⇒ o case other ⇒ throw new IllegalArgumentException("ByteArraySerializer only serializes byte arrays, not [" + other + "]") } def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], clazz: Option[Class[_]]): AnyRef = bytes }