Method that can be used to determine how many serializers this provider is caching currently (if it does caching: default implementation does) Exact count depends on what kind of serializers get cached; default implementation caches all serializers, including ones that are eagerly constructed (for optimal access speed)

The main use case for this method is to allow conditional flushing of serializer cache, if certain number of entries is reached.

Factory method for constructing context object for individual writeValue() calls.

Method that will drop all serializers currently cached by this provider. This can be used to remove memory usage (in case some serializers are only used once or so), or to force re-construction of serializers after configuration changes for mapper than owns the provider.

Mutant factory method called when instance is actually created for use by mapper (as opposed to coming into existence during building, module registration). Necessary usually to initialize non-configuration state, such as caching.