Request: Serialization Formats

multiformats / multicodec

Compact self-describing codecs. Save space by using predefined multicodec tables.

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Request: Serialization Formats #107

Open Stebalien opened 5 years ago

Stebalien commented 5 years ago

Missing:

[ ] bson
[ ] ubjson
[ ] capnp
[ ] flatbuf
[x] msgpack
[ ] binc

repi commented 4 years ago

msgpack seem to exist in the table:

messagepack | serialization | 0x0201 | MessagePack

Really would like to see flatbuffers and cap'n'proto also though!

And bincode, though less standard

Stebalien commented 4 years ago

For bincode, I'd just use "raw binary". Bincode isn't a self-describing format so "this was encoded with bincode" doesn't really tell one anything. (I'm not sure how useful a flatbuffer code is for the same reason)

Stebalien commented 4 years ago

Data encoded with bson, ubjson, capnp, msgpack, and binc have an internal structure.