[phobos] std.msgpack

[Jacob]

My serialization library Orange is still available: http://dsource.org/projects/orange/
I've added an example of serializing through base class references. I can make the necessary changes for inclusion in Phobos if that is of any interest.


/Jacob Carlborg

On 27 aug 2010, at 07:57, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> 
> I think a solid serialization mechanism is vital for communicating data across threads effectively.
> 
> MessagePack is a solid binary offering, but it doesn't offer the upper layers needed for a complete serialization solution. As it stands, it is a good transport mechanism. I confess, however, I wished we adopted a more widely used binary protocol such as Thrift.
> 
> Anyway, I don't see why MessagePack could not be one of the available transport mechanisms in a wider serialization library that has pluggable transports.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> Andrei
> 
> On 6/5/10 0:57 PDT, Masahiro Nakagawa wrote:
>> I resend this mail. Somehow, I didn't reply to Phobos ML.
>> 
>> code and documentation is here:
>> 
>> 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)
>> 
>> Masahiro
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:24:53 +0900, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> <andrei at erdani.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think we should do a review first, and establish this practice for
>>> future proposals as well. Could you please send the code and the
>>> documentation?
>>> 
>>> Andrei
>>> 
>>> On 06/04/2010 02:19 PM, Masahiro Nakagawa wrote:
>>>> A month ago, I announced msgpack4d at D.announce.
>>>> After that, I fixed bugs and improved some features.
>>>> 
>>>> Additional list:
>>>> - real support (suggested by Lars)
>>>> - enum support (reported by Hoshi)
>>>> - direct-conversion deserializer (suggested by Michel).
>>>> - DeflateFilter (originally DeflationBuffer)
>>>> 
>>>> A community review settled down.
>>>> I think current status is practicable quality.
>>>> So, I would like to add this to Phobos.
>>>> 
>>>> Do you see any problems?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Masahiro
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> phobos mailing list
>>>> phobos at puremagic.com
>>>> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
>> _______________________________________________
>> phobos mailing list
>> phobos at puremagic.com
>> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
> _______________________________________________
> phobos mailing list
> phobos at puremagic.com
> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos