I'd like to have some freedom in renaming of events or packages where they are placed. But currently this breaks persistence terribly.
Is it possible to annotate event with some string or even uuid which will be treated as event name by persistence layer?
Yes, you should use a serializer with string manifest, see the akka docs: https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.5/serialization.html#serializer-with-string-manifest
Or take a look at some example code here: https://github.com/benniekrijger/todo-service
The serializer from the example: https://github.com/benniekrijger/todo-service/blob/master/src/main/scala/com/todos/protobuf/TodoSerializer.scala
And the required configuration: https://github.com/benniekrijger/todo-service/blob/master/src/main/resources/application.conf#L13
