A simple serialization library inspired by Apache Thrift and Protocol Buffers.
A compiler is provided msglib-tools/msglibc. It can compile Protocol Buffers .proto file v2 into source code of java and csharp. The serialization wire format is inspired by thrift.
There are two modes for serialization: Text Mode and Binary Mode. Text mode is not efficient, by now, javascript only supports text mode, maybe a binary mode will be added in the future.
Although a msglibc compiler is provided for code generation, it's not neccessary.
Since data definition and serialization is seperated, it's also easy to define serializable structure in code directly.
e.g.
Javascript
msg.MsgPlayer = m.MioStruct({
playerid : m.MioField(1, m.MioInt32),
name : m.MioField(2, m.MioString),
uid : m.MioField(3, m.MioInt64),
skill : m.MioField(4, m.MioString)
});Go
type msgTest1_Tag struct {
Hash []byte `msglib:"1"`
Val int32 `msglib:"2"`
}
type msgTest1 struct {
Name string `msglib:"1"`
Age int32 `msglib:"2"`
Tag *msgTest1_Tag `msglib:"3"`
TagList []*msgTest1_Tag `msglib:"4"`
}