Example serialization of a Shapeless record type with Chill/Kryo.

ShapelessKryo.scala

import shapeless._
import shapeless.record._
import shapeless.ops.record.{Keys, Values}
import shapeless.syntax.singleton._

import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.io.{Input, Output}

import com.twitter.chill.ScalaKryoInstantiator

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream

object ShapelessKryo {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val author = Witness("author")
    val title = Witness("title")
    val id = Witness("id")
    val price = Witness("price")
    
    type Book = String with KeyTag[author.T, String] ::
      String with KeyTag[title.T, String] ::
      Long with KeyTag[id.T, Long] ::
      Double with KeyTag[price.T, Double] ::
      HNil
    
    val book: Book =
      ("author" ->> "Benjamin Pierce") ::
      ("title"  ->> "Types and Programming Languages") ::
      ("id"     ->>  262162091L) ::
      ("price"  ->>  44.11) ::
      HNil
    
    val instantiator = (new ScalaKryoInstantiator).setRegistrationRequired(true)
    val kryo = instantiator.newKryo
    kryo.register(HNil.getClass)
    kryo.register(classOf[Book])
    
    val output = new Output(new ByteArrayOutputStream)
    kryo.writeObject(output, book)
    val bytes = output.toBytes
    println(s"serialized value: ${bytes.mkString("Array(", ", ", ")")}")
    val deserialized = kryo.readObject(new Input(bytes), classOf[Book])
    println(s"deserialized value: $deserialized")
    println(s"author: ${deserialized("author")}")
    println(s"price: ${deserialized("price")}")
  }
}

Example serialization for https://gist.github.com/milessabin/8549878