Why do you need to call Serializer from your own program? It’s an internal developer API so ideally it would only be called to extend Spark. Are you looking to implement a custom Serializer?
Matei On Jun 1, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Soren Macbeth <so...@yieldbot.com> wrote: > https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/v1.0.0/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/serializer/Serializer.scala#L64-L66 > > These changes to the SerializerInstance make it really gross to call > serialize and deserialize from non-scala languages. I'm not sure what the > purpose of a ClassTag is, but if we could get some other arities that don't > require classtags that would help a ton.
