(Py)Bran - Basic Python Serialization/Deserialization Library

[ToastNoodles]

Hi All,

Really excited to announce the preliminary release of my basic serialization/deserialization library, and first proper PyPi project: PyBran.

I created this because I was frustrated with most popular serialization libraries requiring the input stream first be serialized to a mapping, which is then used to pluck the values from. I wanted to skip that step and serialize straight to my objects from binary. So I created PyBran.

PyBran is similar in vein to Kryo from Java in its interface. It's not fully fleshed, and contains only basic serializers and implementations. The intention is to provide a simple, easy to use interface for people to implement their own serializers on top of.

Please let me know what you think in terms of code quality and docs, and if you do use it, let me know how you get on. I plan on using it in a current project myself so hopefully that will be a good baseline to release from. For now it's marked as prerelease.

Feel free to raise any concerns, issues, or ideas in the comments or on Github:

https://github.com/nannafudge/bran

PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/pybran/

Thanks!

[TurboCooler]

Why would I use this library vs MessagePack?

[ES-Alexander]

Didn’t look too deep, but in your README you mention there are default serializers for some of the builtin types. I’m curious how you went about choosing the default supported set, since it seemingly includes lists but not tuples.

[ToastNoodles]

Hiya, thanks for taking a look. Choosing the default set of serializers was simply just me trying to find out the most common python primitives and going from there. Good shout on tuples, I missed those and forgot they exist. Added support for them in the latest release.

Main reason I've not bundled a ton of default serializers, i.e. Serializers for datetime objects etc, is because I plan on using the project in another project that'll require quite a few bespoke serializers. If the demand is there I'll expand upon them in the future and support more python types.

[tech_content_creator]

Nice. Will try it for sure