Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) binary serialization library.

MrSmith via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Dec 20 06:20:32 PST 2014


On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 22:46:14 UTC, ponce wrote:
> On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 22:33:57 UTC, BBaz wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>
> When implementing CBOR serialization/parsing I got the 
> impression that it was remarkably similar to MessagePack except 
> late. Dis you spot anything different?

Not much in the sense of implementation, but it has text type, 
indefinite-length encoding, tags and can be easily extended if 
needed. I think of it as of better msgpack.


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