Msglib

A simple serialization library inspired by Apache Thrift and Protocol Buffers.

A compiler is provided msglib-tools/msglibc. It can compile Protocol Buffers .proto file v2 into source code of java and csharp. The serialization wire format is inspired by thrift.

There are two modes for serialization: Text Mode and Binary Mode. Text mode is not efficient, by now, javascript only supports text mode, maybe a binary mode will be added in the future.

Although a msglibc compiler is provided for code generation, it's not neccessary. Since data definition and serialization is seperated, it's also easy to define serializable structure in code directly.

e.g.

Javascript

    msg.MsgPlayer = m.MioStruct({
        playerid : m.MioField(1, m.MioInt32),
        name : m.MioField(2, m.MioString),
        uid : m.MioField(3, m.MioInt64),
        skill : m.MioField(4, m.MioString)
    });

Go

type msgTest1_Tag struct {
	Hash []byte `msglib:"1"`
	Val  int32  `msglib:"2"`
}

type msgTest1 struct {
	Name    string          `msglib:"1"`
	Age     int32           `msglib:"2"`
	Tag     *msgTest1_Tag   `msglib:"3"`
	TagList []*msgTest1_Tag `msglib:"4"`
}