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MessagePack implementation for Common Language Infrastructure / msgpack.org[C#]
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Where is the flat C-style (BinaryWriter-style) untyped Serialization API? #200

Open petersvp opened 8 years ago

petersvp commented 8 years ago

Why everything is based on objects and classes in this implementation? Or the documentation is misleading?

In the C/C++ version I can instantiate a serializer and start calling methods like msgpack_pack_array / msgpack_pack_int / msgpack_pack_str / msgpack_pack_string_body / ... to manually construct a untyped binary stream.

How can I do this in C#?

[ADD] I found following after A LOT of digging: https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-cli/wiki/Manual-packings

Please, give an example for THIS particular usecase in the top level documentation, since it's lower level and definitely it's best for me as a game developer. I was thinking that this API is unexposed somehow since it was even not mentioned in the readme, and Readme on GitHub is also your marketing and target dev audience document :)

yfakariya commented 8 years ago

Sorry for delay. Thank you for suggestion, the documentation related issue is precious. I will add about it. I will be happy if you found more topics for your usecases and post a new issue about it :)