Bitsery
Your binary serialization library (by fraillt)
cista
Cista is a simple, high-performance, zero-copy C++ serialization & reflection library. (by felixguendling)
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Bitsery
Posts with mentions or reviews of Bitsery.
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- What are some ways I can serialize objects?
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Introducing ByteStream, a super intuitive, safe, reliable and easy to use utility for binary serialisation and deserialization of complex and deeply nested C++ objects. Looking forward to feedback and comments.
Thanks for sharing https://github.com/fraillt/bitsery it seems more powerful but require quite a boilerplate code for even very simple composite stuff. With ByteStream you can totally forget about deep you are in the data-structure hierarchy.
- Is there any good binary serializer & deserializer for C / C++?
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Binary serialization library for at least C++17?
Bitsery is the closest I've seen to it, but you have to use extensions (which i can't yet figure out the API for) to make it achieve byte for byte compatbility
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Google Protobuf vs JSON vs [insert candidate here]
If size and performance matter, then take a look at bitsery. * it might be 9x+ faster than cereal and 18x faster than protobuf. * size-wise, you might save 20-30% by default * on top of that you additional might opt-in into: * bit-level serialization control (e.g. if your values are in the range 1000-2000 it will take you 10bits, or use VLE) * backward-forward compatibility support * pointer support, including raw pointers with the ability to provide custom allocator. * and powerful extensions system, which allows you to further customize things in any way you want it :)
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easy Serialization library for C++?
About on par with nlohmann is a binary serialization lib called Bitsery. It's easy to use, and will be a lot more performant than json. The downside is that the serialized data won't be human readable.
cista
Posts with mentions or reviews of cista.
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what is the best API for serialization?
C++ has some reflection. You can checkout cista: https://github.com/felixguendling/cista
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Ask HN: What happened to flatbuffers? Are they being used?
If you're looking for something faster but C++ specific, more compact in serialized size, more efficient in serialization you can try cista: https://github.com/felixguendling/cista
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Adding reflection to C++ just to make a game work
If you want to see, what's possible with plain C++ (no language changes needed), checkout https://github.com/felixguendling/cista
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alpaca: A new serialization library written in C++17 - Pack C++ structs into a compact byte-array without any macros or boilerplate
Can you give us some hint on what would be different in your project from the libraries that do roughly the same? The tser author has made a comment here, but I know that cista and zpp_bits probably have some overlap with alpaca. I just don't have a specific use case now, so I don't have an urge to dive deep into the topic, but in the past I've needed a library like yours, and right now I would have to evaluate half a dozen libraries to know would be "best" or more appropriate.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Bitsery and cista you can also consider the following projects:
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
cereal - A C++11 library for serialization
smf - Fastest RPC in the west
protozero - Minimalist protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++
FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
Boost.Serialization - Boost.org serialization module
Magic Enum C++ - Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
protobuf-c - Protocol Buffers implementation in C
Nameof C++ - Nameof operator for modern C++, simply obtain the name of a variable, type, function, macro, and enum