Investigate: serialisation format/libraries

Razish / xsngine

C++/SDL2/OpenGL engine for low latency games

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Investigate: serialisation format/libraries #6

Open Razish opened 10 years ago

Razish commented 10 years ago

Could be useful to support several, and look at designing an inherited API.

Candidates:

NBT (Named Binary Tag) [1] [2]
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) [1]
YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) [1]
XML + Schema (eXtensible Markup Language) [1] [[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Schema_(W3C)
Protocol Buffers [1]
INI

Do we really just need a generic hierarchical key/value store API?

eezstreet commented 10 years ago

JSON is good enough, imo. But you should make some sort of generic function set to deal with JSON, so the library isn't being directly accessed by you.