[WIP] Upickle -> Json4s

[manuzhang]

Be sure to do all of the following to help us incorporate your contribution quickly and easily:

• [ ] Make sure the commit message is formatted like: [GEARPUMP-<Jira issue #>] Meaningful description of pull request
• [x] Make sure tests pass via sbt clean test.
• [ ] Make sure old documentation affected by the pull request has been updated and new documentation added for new functionality.

[codecov-io]

Codecov Report

Merging #245 into master will increase coverage by 0.5%. The diff coverage is 87.71%.

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+ Coverage   69.07%   69.57%   +0.5%     
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  Files         192      192             
  Lines        6166     6186     +20     
  Branches      540      521     -19     
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+ Hits         4259     4304     +45     
+ Misses       1907     1882     -25

[manuzhang]

Blocked on https://github.com/json4s/json4s/issues/397