cereal
A C++11 library for serialization (by USCiLab)
cista
Cista is a simple, high-performance, zero-copy C++ serialization & reflection library. (by felixguendling)
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cereal | cista | |
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13 | 4 | |
3,988 | 1,642 | |
1.3% | - | |
1.3 | 7.3 | |
about 2 months ago | 6 days ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cereal
Posts with mentions or reviews of cereal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-19.
- Ser20, a C++20 fork of cereal
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Added reflection to C++ just to make my game work.
I'd stick with cereal for serialization
- Cereal Pack - a C++ schema serialization library
- Is there any good binary serializer & deserializer for C / C++?
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Pataro II: Pataro Harder
Today I'm back to working on Pataro, the roguelike built on libtcod that made up much of my Hacktoberfest efforts. I had been assigned to an issue requesting the addition of serialization and deserialization, but unfortunately ran out of time and wasn't able to finish the former or start the latter. I ran into issues with Cereal, and had a hard time figuring out the structure of the program and how to go about implementing serialization for all the relevant components. At the end of that attempt I mentioned that if I were to try again I'd start by testing out Cereal separately and getting a handle on that before trying to implement it in Pataro - so that's what I'm doing today.
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Hacktoberfest 5
I am once again working on Pataro today, and I've succeeded in clearing up some issues and creating new ones. I've been stuck on an issue where Visual Studio was raising errors in the portion of the code where I call the cereal archive on some types, but was able to clear up that issue by moving the save function definitions out of their respective headers and into the corresponding .cpp files. Examining this repo and its use of cereal again, I was able to get a bit clearer of an idea of how it's implemented, and I included just about every relevant cereal header I could find to try and avoid any issues like the previous one popping up again (with the intention of later removing whichever I can to avoid redundant inclusions).
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Hacktoberfest 4
On the Pataro front, I've started looking at other examples of people using cereal for their games. It seems to be a popular choice for roguelike games like this, so hopefully I can figure out both the syntax problems I'm facing, as well as logical ones like how the program should be structured to have all the necessary data properly serialized and deserialized.
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Hacktoberfest 3
Progress on one front but roadblocks on another. After my post yesterday outlining my plans to add serialization to Pataro I ran into some issues with calling the archive class in cereal wherein the call wouldn't go through due to an incorrect number of arguments. This happened with both vector and size_t data members, and I'm still investigating why.
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Binary serialization library for at least C++17?
This is the simplest serialization library I saw. You only need to add one method to your class and you can stream it to desired archive. It supports binary as well as json, XML and others. https://github.com/USCiLab/cereal
- Google Protobuf vs JSON vs [insert candidate here]
cista
Posts with mentions or reviews of cista.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.
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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 cereal and cista you can also consider the following projects:
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Boost.Serialization - Boost.org serialization module
protozero - Minimalist protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++
FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
MessagePack - MessagePack implementation for C and C++ / msgpack.org[C/C++]
protobuf-c - Protocol Buffers implementation in C
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
Bitsery - Your binary serialization library