How to customize serialization behavior without annotations in Salat?

Question

I'm using Salat library to serialize objects to be stored in MongoDb via Casbah. Sometimes I need to tune little bit how fields will be serialized, and Salat's Annotations is a pretty convenient way to do it.

BUT, Is there any way to describe serialization parameters(Key, Ignore etc) not directly in case-classes(models) via Annotations, but in some external point, to keep my models clear from Salat dependency(aka POJO/POCO)?

Answer 1

Yes, you can add custom serialization logic to your Salat context.

Example from Salat unit tests:

WibbleTransformer

Custom context with custom transformers added