CBOR library and API

[oberstet]

Due to the nature of C, I think it doesn't make sense to try to aim for complete independence of the user API from the underlying serializer.

We do that for languages that are

• dynamically typed (JS, Python, ..)
• statically typed, but provide run-time reflection (Java/Jackson, ..)

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• https://github.com/01org/tinycbor
• https://01org.github.io/tinycbor/current/index.html
• https://git.iotivity.org/iotivity/plain/resource/csdk/security/src/amaclresource.c

[oberstet]

The 2 libraries we should consider are:

• libcbor: incremental parsing with function pointer table
• TinyCBOR: Iterator and if-else type checks

[oberstet]

For comparison, here is a state of the art JSON library:

• http://zserge.com/jsmn.html
• https://github.com/zserge/jsmn

[oberstet]

CBOR in general:

• http://cbor.io/
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049