Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) binary serialization library.

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On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 18:26:26 UTC, MrSmith wrote:
> The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data format
> whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small 
> code
> size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the 
> need
> for version negotiation.  These design goals make it different 
> from
> earlier binary serializations such as ASN.1 and MessagePack.
>
> Here is more info about format: http://cbor.io/
>
> You can easily encode and decode things like built-in types, 
> arrays, hash-maps, structs, tuples, classes, strings and raw 
> arrays (ubyte[]).
>
> Here is some simple code:
>
>     import cbor;
>
>     struct Inner
>     {
>         int[] array;
>         string someText;
>     }
>
>     struct Test
>     {
>         ubyte b;
>         short s;
>         uint i;
>         long l;
>         float f;
>         double d;
>         ubyte[] arr;
>         string str;
>         Inner inner;
>
>         void fun(){} // not encoded
>         void* pointer; // not encoded
>         int* numPointer; // not encoded
>     }
>
>     ubyte[1024] buffer;
>     size_t encodedSize;
>
>     Test test = Test(42, -120, 111111, -123456789, 0.1234, 
> -0.987654,
>         cast(ubyte[])[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8], "It is a test string",
>         Inner([1,2,3,4,5], "Test of inner struct"));
>
>     encodedSize = encodeCborArray(buffer[], test);
>
>     // ubyte[] and string types are slices of input ubyte[].
>     Test result = decodeCborSingle!Test(buffer[0..encodedSize]);
>
>     // decodeCborSingleDup can be used to auto-dup those types.
>
>     assert(test == result);
>
> Here is github link: https://github.com/MrSmith33/cbor-d
> Destroy!

Do you know OGDL ?

http://ogdl.org/

It's currently the more 'appealing' thing to me for serialization.