How to specify object custom serialization in ORMLite?

Question

I would like to store some field of type ParentClass as json string into my database. I don\'t want to use Serializable interface and DataType.SERIALIZABLE cause it ties with fu

Answer 1

So basically your persister should be implemented in the next way:

public class MyFieldClassPersister extends StringType {

    private static final MyFieldClassPersister INSTANCE = new MyFieldClassPersister();

    private MyFieldClassPersister() {
        super(SqlType.STRING, new Class[] { MyFieldClass.class });
    }

    public static MyFieldClassPersister getSingleton() {
        return INSTANCE;
    }

    @Override
    public Object javaToSqlArg(FieldType fieldType, Object javaObject) {
        MyFieldClass myFieldClass = (MyFieldClass) javaObject;
        return myFieldClass != null ? getJsonFromMyFieldClass(myFieldClass) : null;
    }

    @Override
    public Object sqlArgToJava(FieldType fieldType, Object sqlArg, int columnPos) {
        return sqlArg != null ? getMyFieldClassFromJson((String) sqlArg) : null;
    }

    private String getJsonFromMyFieldClass(MyFieldClass myFieldClass) {
        // logic here
    }

    private MyFieldClass getMyFieldClassFromJson(String json) {
        // logic here
    }
}

You should register it in onCreate method of your OrmLiteSqliteOpenHelper class

    @Override
    public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabaseHolder holder, ConnectionSource connectionSource) {
            try {
                //...
                DataPersisterManager
                 .registerDataPersisters(MyFieldClassPersister.getSingleton());
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                // log exception
            }
    }

And then you can use it in your model like this:

@DatabaseField(persisterClass = MyFieldClassPersister.class, columnName = "column_name")
protected MyFieldClass myFieldClass;