On 8 aug 2010, at 18:39, Masahiro Nakagawa wrote: > On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:44:01 +0900, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 8 aug 2010, at 16:16, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 17:19 +0200, Jacob wrote: >>>> Is there any interest in having a serializer in Phobos? I have a >>>> serializer compatible with D2 which I licensed under the Boost license. >>>> This is the description from the project page: >>>> >>>> Orange is a serialization library for D1 and D2, supporting both Tango and >>>> Phobos. It can serialize most of the available types in D, including third >>>> party types and can serialize through base class references. It supports >>>> fully automatic serialization of all supported types and also supports >>>> several ways to customize the serialization. Orange has a separate front >>>> end (the serializer) and back end (the archive) making it possible for the >>>> user to create new archive types that can be used with the existing >>>> serializer. >>>> >>>> It's not very well tested but if there's some interest I'm hoping on >>>> getting more people to test the library. The project page is: >>>> http://dsource.org/projects/orange/ >>> >>> I agree (with everyone else) that Phobos should have a serialization >>> lib. And now it seems we're spoilt for choices -- both Masahiro's >>> MsgPack serializer and Jacob's Orange are more or less complete, working >>> solutions being offered to us. >> >> Can MessagePack serialize an object? I'm looking at the website and can't >> see that is has direct support for that. > > No(but can use helper method). > > MessagePack is a language-neutral serialization and RPC > specification(ProtoBuf, Avro too). > Main purposes are fast and small serialization and communication between many > languages. > These libraries don't handle an object type because > almost systems don't serialize and exchange an object type in product. > > I will add RPC part to MessagePack module. > But currently, Phobos doesn't have event module. > So, I am rewriting std.socket and thinking about event module API. > >>> I have very little experience with using serialization libs, so I have >>> no idea how to determine which one is the better choice. How do we >>> decide which one to use? Perhaps a vote on the NG? >> >> I think one could create a MessagePack archive for my serializer. >> > > I think Orange front-end is overengineering for MessagePack serializer. > MessagePack format can't handle object graph. > But, without speed degradation, > limitation version will be alternative of direct-conversion (de)serializer. > > Lastly, I think supporting two modules is better. > Because the purpose of two modules is different. > > > Masahiro > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
I think I better understand now what MessagePack is and I agree that our libraries have different goals/uses. _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
