I recommend going with a standard format such as ProtoBuf.jl, JSON.jl, or
other similar product.
On Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 2:31:59 PM UTC-4, Andrei Zh wrote:
>
> I work on implementing a binary protocol for a service. This protocol is
> based on messages - structs that support integer numbers, variable-length
> arrays and other structs, i.e. something we could implement in Julia as:
>
> immutable Message1
> version::Int16
> length::Int32
> payload::Array{Message2,1}
> end
>
> Creating a serializer for any such message is trivial, but I have about 50
> of them and would like to automate it, i.e. I'd like a generic way to write
> an immutable structure to a stream. So far the closest candidate is
> StrPack.jl <https://strpackjl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>, but it doesn't
> support variable-length array, which is the must for me.
>
> Do we have something for this or I should come up with my own
> function/macro?
>
