Custom codecs

[supun-kanda]

There's lack of documentation on custom codecs and storing Non-string type values on redis.

In my use case here are the formats
key type: String
value type: CustomPoJo

I tried the following ways to add my own value type

redis:
  type: basic
  name: my-redis-use-case
  node:
    type: redis
    node: "localhost:6379"
    clientName: redis-primary
  redisCodec:
    type: compression
    compressionType: GZIP
    delegatee:
      type: com.supun.cache.codec.GoogleCodec
  clientResources:
    type: default
    commandLatencyCollector:
      type: default
      enabled: false

where The GoogleCodec is a subclass of RedisCodec and is the same type references as the application key-value pair

The other way is to simply give the custom Codec as the type

redis:
  type: basic
  name: my-redis-use-case
  node:
    type: redis
    node: "localhost:6379"
    clientName: redis-primary
  redisCodec:
    type: com.supun.cache.codec.GoogleCodec
  clientResources:
    type: default
    commandLatencyCollector:
      type: default
      enabled: false

In both cases, it failed to identify the custom codec. And gives the following errors.

• for case 1,

* Failed to parse configuration at: redis.redisCodec; Could not resolve type id 'com.supun.msod.cache.codec.GoogleCodec' into a subtype of [simple type, class io.dropwizard.redis.codec.RedisCodecFactory<java.lang.String,com.supun.api.gbp.GoogleCacheToken>]: known type ids = [RedisCodecFactory, byte-array, compression, string, utf8-string]
 at [Source: N/A; line: -1, column: -1] (through reference chain: com.supun.MsodConfiguration["redis"]->io.dropwizard.redis.RedisClientFactory["redisCodec"])

• for case 2

* Failed to parse configuration at: redis.redisCodec.delegatee; Could not resolve type id 'com.supun.cache.codec.GoogleCodec' into a subtype of [simple type, class io.dropwizard.redis.codec.RedisCodecFactory<java.lang.String,com.supun.api.gbp.GoogleCacheToken>]: known type ids = [RedisCodecFactory, byte-array, compression, string, utf8-string]
 at [Source: N/A; line: -1, column: -1] (through reference chain: com.supun.MsodConfiguration["redis"]->io.dropwizard.redis.RedisClientFactory["redisCodec"]->io.dropwizard.redis.codec.CompressionCodecFactory["delegatee"])