chaokunyang opened a new issue, #2145: URL: https://github.com/apache/fury/issues/2145
### Feature Request (1) Background: Fury is a high-performance serialization library that supports cross-language binary protocols. Rust-based applications are increasingly growing. Rust is widely used for its memory safety and concurrency performance, but it also faces serialization challenges related to compatibility with different versions and type structures. Ensuring forward and backward compatibility of types is crucial for long-term project evolution and multi-version support in Rust serialization. (2) Existing Work: Fury has already achieved efficient serialization and deserialization in languages such as Java, Python, and NodeJS. However, in Rust, the related work is still at an early stage, only supporting serialization and deserialization when object type schemas are strictly consistent. As projects expand and become more complex, serialization solutions need to be more comprehensive and efficient to support version evolution. (3) Existing Shortcomings: The current Fury Rust serialization mechanism has yet to fully support forward and backward compatibility of structure types. There is a lack of adaptation mechanisms to handle added or removed fields during type updates, ensuring the stability and consistency of serialized data. Also, efficient sharing of metadata has not yet become a best practice. (4) Points for Improvement: There is a need to implement a type compatibility mechanism based on shared metadata, allowing Fury Rust serialization to support dynamic type updates and ensure compatibility between different versions. Through efficient metadata sharing, intelligent serialization processing for added, modified, or removed fields should be achieved to reduce the development burden and operational risk associated with version changes. (5) Final Project Goals: The ultimate goal is to implement a serialization framework for Fury Rust that can support forward and backward compatibility of types. This framework will leverage the metadata sharing mechanism of Fury's binary serialization protocol, with implementation references from Fury Java/NodeJS, to automatically adapt to changes in type structures. It aims to ensure that data between different versions can be correctly serialized and deserialized, enhancing the breadth and depth of Fury's application in the Rust ecosystem. ### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe _No response_ ### Describe the solution you'd like _No response_ ### Describe alternatives you've considered _No response_ ### Additional context This issue is open for [开源之夏OSPP](https://summer-ospp.ac.cn/) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
