I just heard of AspectJ and it doesn't look too easy to understand, so I want to know beforehand if it (or anything else) will help me with my problem or not.
I have bunch of simple POJO classes and want to write binary serializers for them but without writing Write/Read methods by hand for each class. I could've done so with help of reflection but that will affect runtime performance. I believe I need something similar to Macroses in Scala with compile-time reflection and quasiquotes.
Update: I'm unable to use any serialization available, because I have custom binary protocol which I can't modify (online game)
Update 2:
Example POJO with it's read
, write
and some helper methods. Not final version, there possibly could be some annotations, for example, but general structure should be the same. I also omitted inheritance for simplicity, in reality LoginPacket extends CommandPacket class which in turn extends Packet class.
public class LoginPacket {
public short length;
public int sessionId;
public short command;
public short error;
public String reason;
private String getString(ByteBuffer data) {
short length = data.getShort();
byte[] stringData = new byte[length];
data.get(stringData);
return new String(stringData, "UTF-8");
}
private void putString(ByteBuffer data, String someString) {
data.putShort(someString.length());
byte[] stringData = someString.getBytes("UTF-8");
data.put(stringData);
}
public static LoginPacket read(ByteBuffer data) {
LoginPacker loginPacket = new LoginPacket();
loginPacket.length = data.getShort();
loginPacket.sessionId = data.getInt();
loginPacket.command = data.getShort();
loginPacket.error = data.getShort();
loginPacket.reason = getString(data);
return loginPacket;
}
public void write(ByteBuffer data) {
data.putShort(this.length);
data.putInt(this.sessionId);
data.putShort(this.command);
data.putShort(this.error);
putString(data, this.reason);
}
}