ATD stands for Adaptable Type Definitions. It is a syntax for defining cross-language data types. It is used as input to generate efficient and type-safe serializers, deserializers and validators.
Target programming languages currently supported:
- C++: atdcpp
- DLang: atdd
- Java: atdj
- OCaml, Melange: atdgen
- Python: atdpy
- Scala: atds
- TypeScript: atdts
Export to other interface description languages (IDLs):
- JSON Schema:
atdcat -jsonschema
Tools to work with ATD files:
- atdcat: check syntax, reformat, expand inherited definitions, export to JSON Schema, ...
- atddiff: compare two revisions of a given ATD interface and report incompatibilities.
All can installed with opam e.g.
$ opam install atdgen
The ATD suite of tools is developed and maintained by volunteers—users like you. Various issues are in need of attention. If you'd like to contribute, please leave a comment on the issue you're interested in, or create a new issue. Experienced contributors will guide you as needed.
There are many simple ways of making a positive impact. For example, you can...
- Use the software in your project.
- Give a demo to your colleagues.
- Share the passion on your blog.
- Tweet about what you're doing with atd.
- Report difficulties by creating new issues. We'll triage them.
- Ask questions on StackOverflow.
- Answer questions on StackOverflow.
- Discuss usage on the OCaml forums.
- Pick a task that's easy for you.
Check out in particular good first time issues and other issues with which we could use some help.
For guidelines on how to contribute code, consult CONTRIBUTING.md.
The ATD project started in 2010. Contributors include:
- Martin Jambon
- Rudi Grinberg
- Alexandre Bourquelot
- Ivan Jager
- oleksiy
- Gregoire Lionnet
- David Sheets
- Rytis Jonynas
- Jeff Meister
- Carmelo Piccione
- Louis
- Louis Roché
- Raman Varabets
- Daniel Weil
- Egor Chemokhonenko
- Gabriel Scherer
- Louis Roché (Ahrefs)
- Matthew McQuaid
- koonwen
- tzm
- Mathieu Baudet
- Oleksiy Golovko
- Rauan Mayemir
- Hyeseong Kim
- John Billings
- Marek Kubica
- Zach Yannes
- Antonin Décimo
- Brendan Long
- Caio Wakamatsu
- Chris Yocum
- Pierre Boutillier
- Shon Feder
- metanivek
- sebastiantoh
- Anurag Soni
- Arjun Ravi Narayan
- Asya-kawai
- Christophe Troestler
- Damien Doligez
- Daniel M
- Enrico Tassi
- François Pottier
- Javier Chavarri
- Jonas Bergler
- Kate
- Stephane Legrand
- Vincent Bernardoff
- Zach
- haoyang
- pmundkur
- ygrek
We distribute the source code under the terms of a BSD license.