Is there any good binary serializer & deserializer for C / C++?

• Kaitai Struct

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I'm aware there is Kaitai Struct which can handle binary parsing (deserializing). And I have some success previously with python Construct which can do both serialize & deserialize, but it's written in python.

• cereal

  13 3,996 1.3 C++

  A C++11 library for serialization

  

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• Bitsery

  8 989 4.0 C++

  Your binary serialization library

• reflecxx

  5 55 10.0 Python

  A static reflection framework for C++, using libclang.

I have a library and tooling that using code generation will allow you to automatically generate serialization/deserialization to your custom binary format. It uses the visitor pattern and code generation for static reflection (eg iterating over fields of a struct). Check it out at https://github.com/jimmyorourke/reflecxx. Particularly it includes an automatic to/from json, which you could use as a starting point for how to write your own visitor.

• binary_io

  3 26 6.6 C++

  A binary i/o library for C++, without the agonizing pain

I wrote a library called binary_io, specifically for handling bespoke binary formats

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