TCP streams have no standard message structure. Therefore, the
TCP implementation previously only transferred the message
payload.
If someone wanted to convey header information, they would have
to write their own wrapper and/or use Java serialization for
the entire message.
This change provides a strategy to allow users to determine
which headers are transferred, and how.
A MessageConvertingMessageMapper is now provided that invokes
any MessageConverter. A MapMessageConverter is provided that
converts the payload, and selected heades to a Map with two
entries ("payload") and ("headers").
A MapJsonSerializer is provided that converts a Map to/from
JSON. Jackson can't delimit multiple objects in a stream
so another serializer is required to encode/decode structure.
A ByteArrayLfSerializer is used by default, inserting a
linefeed between JSON objects.
The combination of these elements now allows header
information to be transferred over TCP. Of course, users
can implment their own (de)serializer to format the
bits on the wire exactly as needed by their application.
INT-1807 Polishing
Add a test that uses a Map MessageConverter with a
Java (de)serializer.
INT-1807: Polishing
INT-1807: Rebased and polished
Change `MapJsonSerializer` to use `JsonObjectMapper` abstraction
Doc Polishing
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