Registering Non-Generic Classes

You can use either of the two ways described below to register your classes for compact serialization.

Important

If you want to mark a class for compact serialization that requires parameterized constructor, make sure that the class contains a default constructor.

Using NCache Web Manager

• Launch NCache Web Manager by browsing to http://localhost:8251 (Windows) or <server-ip>:8251 (Windows + Linux).

• In the left navigation bar, click on Clustered Caches or Local Caches, based on the cache to configure.

• Against the cache name, click on View Details.

• This opens up the detailed configuration page for the cache. Go to the Advanced Settings tab and click on Compact Serialization in the left bar.

• Click the Add Types button, a new Select Compact Classes dialog box will open up.

• Against Library, click on "..." and select the required file which contains the classes. The classes will be listed from the selected assembly in Loaded Class list box.

• Select the desired classes, which you want to register with NCache for compact serialization, and click Add Classes.

• Click OK to add classes. It lists fully qualified names of all selected classes in Compact Serialization tab.

• Click on Save Changes to apply this configuration to the cache.

Using PowerShell

Add-CompactType cmdlet enables the user to register a custom object for compact serialization for the given caches.

This command defines a compact type for demoClusteredCache. You can define further types one by one repeating the step for other types.

Add-CompactType -CacheName demoClusteredCache -AssemblyPath C:\Data.dll -Class Alachisoft.NCache.Sample.Data.Customer

Add-CompactType -CacheName demoClusteredCache -AssemblyPath C:\Data.dll -Class Alachisoft.NCache.Sample.Data.Customer -NonCompactAttributes hireDate

Using Tools (Java)

• Open the NCache tools directory using the following command:

$cd ~/%NCHOME%/bin/tools

• Use the addcompacttype tool to register custom objects for compact serialization.

./addcompacttypedemoCache -a ~/Data.jar –c alachisoft.sample.data.compact.Engineer
./addcompacttypedemoCache -a ~/Data.jar -c alachisft.sample.data.compact.Manager –al pay

Engineer class is marked compact and added to configuration of demoCache.

See Also

Unregister Non-Generic Classes
Register Generic Classes
Register Generic Classes using Generic Type Handler
Register Classes for Portable Data Sharing