Custom Serialization

Serialization of snapshots and payloads of Persistent messages is configurable with Akka's Serialization infrastructure. For example, if an application wants to serialize

• payloads of type MyPayload with a custom MyPayloadSerializer and
• snapshots of type MySnapshot with a custom MySnapshotSerializer

it must add

akka.actor {
  serializers {
    my-payload = "docs.persistence.MyPayloadSerializer"
    my-snapshot = "docs.persistence.MySnapshotSerializer"
  }
  serialization-bindings {
    "docs.persistence.MyPayload" = my-payload
    "docs.persistence.MySnapshot" = my-snapshot
  }
}

to the application configuration. If not specified, a default serializer is used.