Geode Data Types

Purpose 

The purpose of this document to describe serialization of a various data type which Geode understands. 

Data Types

Geode supports all the Java primitive data types. Custom Java object can be serialized through Geode PdxSerializable and DataSerializable interfaces. The Application can attach its own data serializer through Geode DataSerializer and Geode PdxSerializer interface. Using Geode, the application can also serialize arrays of primitive java types and java collections. It also understands the Java Serializable.

In Geode, every supported data type is associated with type Id. Type Id is represented by one byte. To serialize any date type Geode first writes the typeId. Then it writes the length of serialized byte for variable types. For fixed data types it just write those bytes in the Big Indian byte order.