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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.drill.exec.serialization;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * Path serializer to simple String path. Without it the hadoop Path serialization creates a big JSON object.
+ */
+public class PathSerDe {
+
+  public static class Se extends JsonSerializer<Path> {
+
+    @Override
+    public void serialize(Path value, JsonGenerator gen, SerializerProvider serializers) throws IOException {
+      gen.writeString(value.toUri().getPath());
+    }
+  }
+}