@Json or @Serialize(format=json) Annotation

[Samo Dadela]

Hi,

Regarding:

Enhancement: @Json or @Serialize(format=json) Annotation #244

Are there any news on this feature?

I tried to use kirillgroshov's implementation from https://github.com/kirillgroshkov/objectify-json-serialization  and it seems to works quite nicely.

The entity size went down and there's a ~30% increase in speed compared to using EmbeddedEntity (only local devserver, though).

I'd like to know:
- Are there any disadvantages/dangers in using JSON as the serialization format?
- Since objectify-json-serialization uses Translators... how well are Translators supported?
- Is there a way to change the serialization format later (in-place)? Let's say I want to convert from EmbeddedEntity to JSON later. Is there a way to tell Objectify to read EE and write JSON and if the entity was already converted to JSON to use that?

I'm a bit scarred to use @Serializable (java Serialization) since our entity will change quite a bit - but i'd like to be able to compress (zip=true) the data like @Serializable does.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Samo