Expose a TypeMarker factory to wrap an arbitrary Type

changelog/@unreleased/pr-2221.v2.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+type: improvement
+improvement:
+  description: Expose a TypeMarker factory to wrap an arbitrary Type
+  links:
+  - https://github.com/palantir/dialogue/pull/2221

dialogue-serde/src/main/java/com/palantir/conjure/java/dialogue/serde/ConjureBodySerDe.java

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -56,8 +57,8 @@ final class ConjureBodySerDe implements BodySerDe {
     private final Deserializer<InputStream> binaryInputStreamDeserializer;
     private final Deserializer<Optional<InputStream>> optionalBinaryInputStreamDeserializer;
     private final Deserializer<Void> emptyBodyDeserializer;
-    private final LoadingCache<TypeMarker<?>, Serializer<?>> serializers;
-    private final LoadingCache<TypeMarker<?>, Deserializer<?>> deserializers;
+    private final LoadingCache<Type, Serializer<?>> serializers;
+    private final LoadingCache<Type, Deserializer<?>> deserializers;
 
     /**
      * Selects the first (based on input order) of the provided encodings that
@@ -86,11 +87,11 @@ final class ConjureBodySerDe implements BodySerDe {
         this.emptyBodyDeserializer = new EmptyBodyDeserializer(errorDecoder);
         // Class unloading: Not supported, Jackson keeps strong references to the types
         // it sees: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/489
-        this.serializers =
-                Caffeine.from(cacheSpec).build(token -> new EncodingSerializerRegistry<>(defaultEncoding, token));
+        this.serializers = Caffeine.from(cacheSpec)
+                .build(type -> new EncodingSerializerRegistry<>(defaultEncoding, TypeMarker.of(type)));
         this.deserializers = Caffeine.from(cacheSpec)
-                .build(token -> new EncodingDeserializerRegistry<>(
-                        encodingsSortedByWeight, errorDecoder, emptyContainerDeserializer, token));
+                .build(type -> new EncodingDeserializerRegistry<>(
+                        encodingsSortedByWeight, errorDecoder, emptyContainerDeserializer, TypeMarker.of(type)));
     }
 
     private static List<WeightedEncoding> decorateEncodings(List<WeightedEncoding> input) {
@@ -112,13 +113,13 @@ private ImmutableList<Encoding> sortByWeight(List<WeightedEncoding> encodings) {
     @Override
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     public <T> Serializer<T> serializer(TypeMarker<T> token) {
-        return (Serializer<T>) serializers.get(token);
+        return (Serializer<T>) serializers.get(token.getType());
     }
 
     @Override
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     public <T> Deserializer<T> deserializer(TypeMarker<T> token) {
-        return (Deserializer<T>) deserializers.get(token);
+        return (Deserializer<T>) deserializers.get(token.getType());
     }
 
     @Override

dialogue-target/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/TypeMarker.java

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 package com.palantir.dialogue;
 
+import com.palantir.logsafe.Preconditions;
 import com.palantir.logsafe.SafeArg;
 import com.palantir.logsafe.exceptions.SafeIllegalArgumentException;
 import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
@@ -45,6 +46,10 @@ protected TypeMarker() {
         }
     }
 
+    private TypeMarker(Type type) {
+        this.type = Preconditions.checkNotNull(type, "Type is required");
+    }
+
     public final Type getType() {
         return type;
     }
@@ -70,4 +75,15 @@ public final int hashCode() {
     public final String toString() {
         return "TypeMarker{type=" + type + '}';
     }
+
+    /** Create a new {@link TypeMarker} instance wrapping the provided {@link Type}. */
+    public static TypeMarker<?> of(Type type) {
+        return new WrappingTypeMarker(type);
+    }
+
+    private static final class WrappingTypeMarker extends TypeMarker<Object> {
+        private WrappingTypeMarker(Type type) {
+            super(type);
+        }
+    }
 }