News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization. Parent comment

Re:Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization by GordonS on Monday May 28, 2018 @06:34AM (#17171677)
There are plenty of other options though, such as JSON, MessagePack, Protocol Buffers etc. And BinaryFormatter has always performed poorly against 3rd party libs, especially other binary formatters such MessagePack
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization by _pmf_ on Monday May 28, 2018 @06:50AM (#17171736)
Do any of these options support proper handling of cycles in the object graph out of the box?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization by GordonS on Monday May 28, 2018 @09:28AM (#17172259)
Yes.

Using the Newtonsoft library you can configure it using `JsonSerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling`, and with with protobuf-net you set `AsReference` on your class's `ProtoContractAttribute`. I don't think MessagePack-CSharp or msgpack-cli support cyclic references tho.

[ Parent | on HN ]