weePickle
A fork of uPickle, shaded for backwards and forwards compatibility. (by rallyhealth)
µPickle
uPickle: a simple, fast, dependency-free JSON & Binary (MessagePack) serialization library for Scala (by lihaoyi)
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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weePickle
Posts with mentions or reviews of weePickle.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-25.
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Updated benchmark results of JSON parsers for Scala - now with results for circe and play-json boosters based on jsoniter-scala.
The summary would be that jsoniter-scala-core API can speed up AST-based parsers like circe and play-json greatly. But the code generated by jsoniter-scala-macros API is much more efficient, so I'm expecting that some JSON parsers that allow derivation of direct codecs will port or reuse best implementations from jsoniter-scala-core API like here or here.
µPickle
Posts with mentions or reviews of µPickle.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-22.
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Why does Scala seem to be slow at benchmark results?
The upickle library has traditionally had great performance for handling json in Scala apps so is likely to be seen as a safe choice for someone starting a Scala project. It appears though that not just upickle, but other json library projects are having difficulties maintaining their old level of performance when they release using Scala 3's macros. uPickle currently has an open issue where you can see some of these issues: https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/upickle/issues/389 and here you can see the weePickle folks are also having the same performance problems. Looks like things changed up significantly enough between Scala 2 and Scala 3 so that in order to maintain the same functionality they have resorted to using runtime reflection for mapping to/from case classes.
- Preparing for uPickle 2.0.0
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Updated benchmark results of JSON parsers for Scala - now with results for circe and play-json boosters based on jsoniter-scala.
See here for sample code size numbers (not picking on upickle specifically, it's just what I'm using myself. I've heard similar reports about e.g. circe)
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[help] Trouble with derivation and generics
A good starting point is the note in MacroImplicits.scala in upickle sources. "derives Writer" for a specific case class Foo simply adds a given Writer[Foo] to a companion object of the same specific class. However, this cannot be done automatically for a trait defining sum type - in this case trait Thing. The required given must be defined manually, and the ones automatically obtained for case classes can be used in it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing weePickle and µPickle you can also consider the following projects:
jsoniter-scala - Scala macros for compile-time generation of safe and ultra-fast JSON codecs
ScalaPB - Protocol buffer compiler for Scala.
msgpack - MessagePack serializer implementation for Scala / msgpack.org[Scala]
Pickling
scodec - Scala combinator library for working with binary data
Scrooge - A Thrift parser/generator
validation
Avro4s - Avro schema generation and serialization / deserialization for Scala
ScalaBuff - the scala protocol buffers (protobuf) compiler
avro-codegen
Chill - Scala extensions for the Kryo serialization library