[jira] [Commented] (TINKERPOP-1942) Binary serialization format

["Jorge Bay (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jorge Bay commented on TINKERPOP-1942:
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GraphSON3 handles null values by hiding type information, instead of:

{code}
{ @type: "g:MyTypeName", @value: null }
{code}

GraphSON deserialization returns

{code}
null
{code}

This issue makes creating complex types, with nested subtypes, in GraphSON much harder. Introducing a new format is a good opportunity to fix this issue, focusing on making easier to serialize/deserialize complex object types.

> Binary serialization format
> ---------------------------
>
>                 Key: TINKERPOP-1942
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-1942
>             Project: TinkerPop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: io
>            Reporter: Jorge Bay
>            Priority: Major
>
> We should provide a binary serialization format designed to reduce serialization overhead and minimizing the size of the payload that is transmitted over the wire.
> It could be implemented in a very similar way as Kryo support but with interoperability in mind and ultimately we could fade Gryo out, as now with the GLVs it doesn't have a role to play.
> The main benefit would be the performance improvement, making serialization and deserialization processing time negligible on both the server and the client.
> Background: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/13e70235591853801bab16ed457ee4f56f3dfe2d1c5817c34a036408@%3Cdev.tinkerpop.apache.org%3E



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