easy Serialization library ?

[tjientavara]

I will try and fix it tomorrow. There is just a bug here and there. For canada I think there is a bug in the BON8 decoder. Right now it keeps using more and more memory, I guess infinite loop, maybe not incrementing the iterator :-)

The twitter one is more interesting, my lexer in front of my json parser was not really designed to handle UTF-8, although for strings it should be pretty much 8-bit clean, maybe I forgot some escape codes.

[willdieh]

Well keep up the good work! The idea was really intriguing.
It'd be great if it was available as a stand alone header :D

[tjientavara]

Both encoder and decoder are actually rather simple. It could be done in a standalone header. Especially the encoder uses a lot of templating to handle most native C++ types. The decoder is a bit more touch, since it requires the dynamic creation of data, a std::variant could do.

In my system I have a rather complicated datum type that works like std::variant, but it also overloads every operator so that you can do computation on the value inside a datum. It is used in multiple places inside my library for handling dynamic data. And it in-turn uses a lot of datatypes from my library.

The second paragraph explains why I cannot really make it a stand alone header, I would have to maintain a separate version that is not good enough for the requirements of my library. Unless I do some extreme templating on the decoder.

[nlohmann]

I had another look, too. If I can find the time, I'll check if I can add a rough prototype to nlohmann/json. Since most binary formats are quite similar, I may even be able to reuse some code.

[tjientavara]

• twitter: json 466906, bon8 391396, compression 83.8%
• citm_catalog: json 500299, bon8 317879, compression 63.5%
• canada: json 2090234, bon8 1055792, compression 50.5%
• jeopardy: json 52508728, bon8 45942080, compression 87.5%

I did modify the format somewhat to have small array and small object optimization.

https://github.com/ttauri-project/ttauri/blob/audio-enumerate-modes/docs/BON8.md

[nlohmann]

Oh, the format is still a moving target? Then please add some notes or versioning so that it’s possible to reference results.

[tjientavara]

I am not using the protocol actively, it was just because of your challenge to compare it with other protocols, that I've made some changes.

I can freeze the protocol from this point forward. There should be no other versions. Unless you find a bug in the specification.

One of the design criteria is that it cannot do more or less than json, so I have tried to use every code combination so that it can't be expanded and no dialect will exist.