Using MessagePack with Android

Question

Has someone tried to use MessagePack with an Android app?
Is it possible? I have tried to use the Jar from msgpack-java and received the following Exceptio

Answer 1

There is an ongoing effort by @TheTerribleSwiftTomato and the MessagePack core team to get MessagePack working on Android, please see the related GitHub issue. The fix mentioned in @TheTerribleSwiftTomato's answer is to be found here.

Update

I've managed to get it at least running on Android by (painstakingly) adding all the necessary javassist Classes which are currently required for the build to succeed. An extra 600KB gain in size, yet at least it seems to work. All in all, it appears to be working to some extent on Android, eventually check out the lesser-known resources about Message Pack such as its User Group and its Wiki for more information.

On a side-note, be sure to use a HTTP Request Library (such as LoopJ's Android Async HTTP or Apache's HttpClient) which can handle binary data.

Last but not least you can ping me if there is interest in this jar which makes MessagePack seemingly work on Android – credits go out of course to @TheTerribleSwiftTomato who supplied the fix above!