Review: std.msgpack

[Rory McGuire]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:29:50 +0200, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> There's one larger submission that needs review - Masahiro Nakagawa's  
> std.msgpack. I think it would be great if this community established a  
> review process. To do so, we should abstract away starting from at least  
> one review :o). Here's Masahiro's work:
>
> code: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/374829/std/msgpack.d
> doc:  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/374829/std/msgpack.html
> zip:  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/374829/std_msgpack.zip (archives code and  
> doc)
>
> Feel free to comment here.
>
>
> Andrei


If you're going to have a std.serialize surely it should be called that  
and surely it should have various serialization drivers?

I'm not convinced that it makes sense to just have one binary  
serialization mechanism when during debugging you might prefer it to use  
xml or some text
based serialization mechanism.

I really like this serialization mechanism. It looks like its a simplified  
copy of Hessian dsource.org/projects/hessiand. I like hessian a lot, I  
even made my own simple hessian implementation (not hessiand thats by  
someone else).


msgpack seems to rely on a IDL compiler I don't think it should be in the  
standard library if this is the case, better to have something that  
automatically generates the code from an interface and then uses a xml,  
binary, ini, etc... driver to generate the serialized/de-serialized data.

Just my two cents.

-Rory

PS: your book is awesome, really well written.