No serializer for Try<?>

[qux42]

Hello,
I wonder why there is no serializer for Try. We use vavr a lot in akka-messages, where we can have a Try as an response. So far we are serializing everything with protobuf, but we are planning to change to Jackson.
Is it possible, that a serializer for Try gets added?

[hypr2771]

Here is my attempt to implement a Try serializer and deserializer (note that it also adds a mixin, due to the lack of good support of StackTraceElement): hypr2771@dd701ef.

Note: I am a beginner using Jackson, so I wouldn't trust much what I did there (some copy and paste), but it seems to work in unit test and using it on my application.

[pivovarit]

Technically, Try is not something you should serialize/deserialize, but people are asking for it, so let's do it - how do you think it should behave when the exception is thrown?

[hypr2771]

Technically, Try is not something you should serialize/deserialize, but people are asking for it, so let's do it - how do you think it should behave when the exception is thrown?

What do you think about my implementation? It simply serializes the failure as well. I guess that is what we would want since we want to serialize the Try type directly.
If user wanted to handle the failure, they would handle it using Try.mapFailure or the like. I suggest we implement it to directly contain the exception in case of a Try.Failure. This is what should be expected from users.