How to do binary serialisation?

[Srinivas JONNALAGADDA]

Hello,

        Suppose that I have an array of `UInt64`.  Further suppose that I perform some operations, and push several values into the array.  Now, I wish to serialise the values in binary format into a byte array.  How to do that?

        Naturally, I will later want to read that byte array (possibly from disk), and reconstruct the array in memory.  How to do that?  Thanks.

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[Jonne Haß]

There's a very early Marshal implementation in https://github.com/manastech/crystal/tree/marshalling, but not sure it can handle arrays yet.

Another avenue is to look into standardized binary message formats, like protobuf or msgpack for which I could find a Crystal implementation https://github.com/manastech/crystal/tree/marshalling

If that's nothing for you it should at least give you some ideas on how to devise and implement your own format.

Good luck,
Jonne

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[Jonne Haß]

Oh, forgot to copy the right link, sorry. Here it is: https://github.com/benoist/msgpack-crystal

[Srinivas JONNALAGADDA]

        Thanks for the pointers, Jonne!  I see that Crystal's own (un)marshaller are coming up nicely.

        I do not think that I have a need for MsgPack right now, but shall make a note of that library too.

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