serialization for java.util.Locale under java 1.7 is broke

[ghost]

From [email protected] on December 12, 2012 19:36:49

What steps will reproduce the problem?
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the Kryo are you using?


Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/kryo/issues/detail?id=100

[ghost]

From [email protected] on December 12, 2012 10:43:37

Sorry, accidentally pressed enter and no way to edit the issue

Steps to reproduce -

Under java 1.7

Locale l = Locale.getDefault();
Output output = new Output(MIN_BUFFER_SIZE, MAX_BUFFER_SIZE);
kryo.writeClassAndObject(output, data);

...

Locale l = (Locale)kryo.readClassAndObject(new Input(Base64.decodeBase64(sResult.getBytes("UTF-8"))));

System.out.println("After: " + l);

Throws NPE in

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Locale.toString(Locale.java:1198)
at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2902)
at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:128)

[ghost]

From [email protected] on December 12, 2012 10:59:15

Java 1.7 has a field called baseLocale in Locale class. This type lives under sun.* packages and is marked as transient. So there are custom read/write methods on Locale to handle serialization. But kryo does not use those.

[ghost]

From [email protected] on May 13, 2013 15:40:13

Confirmed, root exception during deserialization:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Locale.getLanguage(Locale.java:1007)
at eu.livotov.tpt.i18n.Dictionary.get(Dictionary.java:83)
at eu.livotov.tpt.i18n.Dictionary.get(Dictionary.java:69)
at eu.livotov.tpt.i18n.TM.get(TM.java:63)

and line 1007:
return baseLocale.getLanguage();

Locale class has explicit readObject() and writeObject().

[ghost]

From [email protected] on July 09, 2013 13:49:41

This Bug can be fixed by including the following line in Kryo.java below line 155:

addDefaultSerializer(Locale.class, LocaleSerializer.class);

and by adding the following lines to DefaultSerializers.java

static public class LocaleSerializer extends Serializer<Locale> {
    public void write (Kryo kryo, Output output, Locale object) {
        output.writeAscii(object.getLanguage());
    output.writeAscii(object.getCountry());
    output.writeAscii(object.getVariant());
    }

    public Locale read (Kryo kryo, Input input, Class<Locale> type) {
        return new Locale(input.readString(), input.readString(), input.readString());
    }
}

[ghost]

From [email protected] on July 23, 2013 14:37:51

Shouldn't your LocaleSerializer be added to Kryo then? Or perhaps the kryo-serializers project: https:/magro/kryo-serializers

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From romixlev on July 24, 2013 00:26:07

I tend to agree with the previous commnent. It is not really a bug.
By default, Kryo does not cover all possible special cases present in different versions of JDKs from different vendors. It only tries to cover a common set of classes in a most generic way.

The workaround that you presented is a rather easy and usual way to add support for serialization of specific classes in user-defined code. There is no need to extend Kryo. You could simply call addDefaultSerializer right after you constructed your Kryo instances.

Adding your Locale serializer to the kryo-serializers library (https:/magro/kryo-serializers) could be a good idea.

[ghost]

From romixlev on July 24, 2013 00:36:29

BTW, for any class that implements Java java.io.Serializable interface, you could use Kryo's com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.JavaSerializer. It is designed exactly for such cases. It is not the fastest, but it will use read/write methods provided for java.io.Serializable.

So, you could simply use this (or any other way of registering a serializer in Kryo):
addDefaultSerializer(Locale.class, JavaSerializer.class);

-Leo

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From [email protected] on September 06, 2013 05:56:06

Hi, the proposed solution becomes more difficult when we are using SessionManager Kryo as tomcat using memcached for example, we are required to create a jar with the class changed.

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From romixlev on September 06, 2013 06:00:18

@-robertwgil: Can you elaborate a bit? Which of the proposed solutions you mean (there are a few in this thread)? How do you create Kryo instances in your environment? Do you create it explicitly in your code or do you use a library (e.g. library implementing your SessionManager) that internally creates Kryo instances?

[ghost]

From [email protected] on November 11, 2013 05:15:08

@romix: I followed this tutorial and get the problem: https://code.google.com/p/memcached-session-manager/wiki/SetupAndConfiguration
As @fuad.efendi said, the NPE occurs because baseLocale was null in java 7 when deserializating

[magro]

@NathanSweet Should we add a LocaleSerializer to kryo, or keep/add it to kryo-serializers?

[NathanSweet]

@magro I think any JDK class that we can serialize without being JVM specific can go in Kryo's default serializers. If the serializer has to access private API via reflection, IMO it shouldn't be a default serializer. I'd be open to including ALL the kryo-serializers serializers in Kryo as long as they are in a separate package that makes it clear they are JVM specific and they are not registered by default.

[magro]

Ok, great, I submitted an issue to move serializers for std jdk classes from kryo-serializers to kryo. I also like the idea to move all serializers from kryo-serializers to kryo.

[magro]

Fixed by pull request #164.