[infinispan-dev] REST server, dealing with Serializable

Hey Guys! I'm currently reworking REST interface and I'm scratching my head looking how we deal with Serializable [1][2]. The scenario assumes that server knows that cache stores a Serializable instance and moreover, it knows how to deserialize it (and convert it to XML/JSON, but that's the trivial part). I might be wrong, but I think both assumptions are questionable if not wrong. At first, how to distinguish a serialized instance of a class the server received [3] from a standard byte array? I can imagine someone using "Content-type: application/x-java-serialized-object" but it's very error prone. It also leads to the question number two - how the server will know that type of instance it is? This knowledge is essential for deserialization. I think the serialization/deserialization should be really done on the client side (but as I mentioned before, maybe I don't see some important use cases). I would like to remove it from refactored REST server. What do you think? Thanks, Sebastian [1] https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/blob/master/server/rest/src/main... [2] https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/blob/master/server/rest/src/test... [3] Note that the input param here is byte[] https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/blob/master/server/rest/src/main... -- SEBASTIAN ŁASKAWIEC INFINISPAN DEVELOPER Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig>