1 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/requests_cache/backends/gridfs.py b/requests_cache/backends/gridfs.py
index 9f04a8a..aadb7e5 100644
--- a/requests_cache/backends/gridfs.py
+++ b/requests_cache/backends/gridfs.py
@@ -6,12 +6,14 @@
 """
 from logging import getLogger
 from threading import RLock
+from typing import Optional
 
 from gridfs import GridFS
 from gridfs.errors import CorruptGridFile, FileExists
 from pymongo import MongoClient
 
 from .._utils import get_valid_kwargs
+from ..serializers import SerializerType, pickle_serializer
 from .base import BaseCache, BaseStorage
 from .mongodb import MongoDict
 
@@ -27,14 +29,22 @@ class GridFSCache(BaseCache):
         kwargs: Additional keyword arguments for :py:class:`pymongo.MongoClient`
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, db_name: str, decode_content: bool = False, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        db_name: str,
+        decode_content: bool = False,
+        serializer: Optional[SerializerType] = None,
+        **kwargs
+    ):
         super().__init__(cache_name=db_name, **kwargs)
-        self.responses = GridFSDict(db_name, decode_content=decode_content, **kwargs)
+        skwargs = {'serializer': serializer, **kwargs} if serializer else kwargs
+
+        self.responses = GridFSDict(db_name, decode_content=decode_content, **skwargs)
         self.redirects = MongoDict(
             db_name,
             collection_name='redirects',
             connection=self.responses.connection,
-            no_serializer=True,
+            serializer=None,
             **kwargs
         )
 
@@ -53,8 +63,15 @@ class GridFSDict(BaseStorage):
         kwargs: Additional keyword arguments for :py:class:`pymongo.MongoClient`
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, db_name, collection_name=None, connection=None, **kwargs):
-        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        db_name,
+        collection_name=None,
+        connection=None,
+        serializer: Optional[SerializerType] = pickle_serializer,
+        **kwargs
+    ):
+        super().__init__(serializer=serializer, **kwargs)
         connection_kwargs = get_valid_kwargs(MongoClient.__init__, kwargs)
         self.connection = connection or MongoClient(**connection_kwargs)
         self.db = self.connection[db_name]