scala-pickling

I'm trying to write a custom SPickler / Unpickler pair to work around some the current limitations of scala-pickling. The data type I'm trying to pickle is a case class, where some of the fields already have their own SPickler and Unpickler instances. I'd like to use these instances in my custom pickler, but I don't know how. Here's an example of what I mean: // Here's a class for which I want a custom SPickler / Unpickler. // One of its fields can already be pickled, so I'd like to reuse that logic. case class MyClass[A: SPickler: Unpickler: FastTypeTag](myString: String, a: A) // Here's my

I'm trying to use "pickling" serialization is Scala, and I see the same example demonstrating it: import scala.pickling._ import json._ val pckl = List(1, 2, 3, 4).pickle Unpickling is just as easy as pickling: val lst = pckl.unpickle[List[Int]] This example raises some question. First of all, it skips converting of object to string. Apparently you need to call pckl.value to get json string representation. Unpickling is even more confusing. Deserialization is an act of turning string (or bytes) into an object. How come this "example" demonstrates deserialization if there is no string/binry

I'm using Scala Pickling , an automatic serialization framework for Scala. According to the author's slides , any type T can be pickled as long as there is an implicit Pickler[T] in scope. Here, I'm assuming she means scala.tools.nsc.io.Pickler . However, the following does not compile: import scala.pickling._ import scala.pickling.binary._ import scala.tools.nsc.io.Pickler object Foo { def bar[T: Pickler](t: T) = t.pickle } The error is: [error] exception during macro expansion: [error] scala.ScalaReflectionException: type T is not a class [error] at scala.reflect.api.Symbols$SymbolApi$class