Good point! Sounds good then. Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 20, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Dan Smith <dsm...@pivotal.io> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Jacob Barrett <jbarr...@pivotal.io> wrote: >> >> I really feel like an annotation would make the most sense. How likely is >> it that the object could not be annotated or the serializer for the object >> is not tightly coupled with the object? Having to map objects to >> serializers externally then becomes a lot more complicated to keep >> consistent. >> > > Well, with PDX serialization there may not even be a java class, or it may > not be present on the server. So annotations don't really cover all of the > use cases. With the proposed API, you could plug in an annotation based > serializer, if you wanted to. > > -Dan