[ann] Bolty - binary javascript object serializer

[Alan Hoffmeister]

Hello guys,

I want to introduce Bolty, a small piece of code that can serialize JS
objects into binary buffers and back again into an object. It consumes
a lot less space than JSON and can also handle objects that contains
buffers and other types of data. It's a lot like Protocol Buffers but
uses pure JS and its very extensible.

https://github.com/alanhoff/node-bolty

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[Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix)]

Hey there.

This sounds like an interesting project. Did you make bindings for other scripting languages - mainly PHP - too? I am just looking for a smaller soltuion than JSON… o.o

Kind regards, Ingwie

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[Alex Kocharin]

I thought we had BSON for this purpose already.


04.11.2014, 19:11, "Alan Hoffmeister" <alanhof...@gmail.com>:

[Alan Hoffmeister]

@Alex, Bolty generates a much smaller output compared to BSON, but is
a bit less flexible.

@Kevin no bindings yet, sry. It shouldn't be complicated to implement
one for PHP.

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[Danilo Sampaio]

Thank you for sharing Alan!
A very simple API.

On Tue Nov 04 2014 at 13:18:27 Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix) <ingwi...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hey there.

This sounds like an interesting project. Did you make bindings for other scripting languages - mainly PHP - too? I am just looking for a smaller soltuion than JSON… o.o

Kind regards, Ingwie
> Am 04.11.2014 um 16:59 schrieb Alan Hoffmeister <alanhof...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hello guys,
>
> I want to introduce Bolty, a small piece of code that can serialize JS
> objects into binary buffers and back again into an object. It consumes
> a lot less space than JSON and can also handle objects that contains
> buffers and other types of data. It's a lot like Protocol Buffers but
> uses pure JS and its very extensible.
>
> https://github.com/alanhoff/node-bolty
>
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[Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix)]

I dont like the idea to compile a module just to use two functions, so I am looking for a flat - scripted - alternative instead.

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[Alex Kocharin]

Yeah, BSON is optimized for traversal speed mostly. If we're talking about size, it'd make sense to look for CBOR or MessagePack.

(I see that Bolty generates even smaller output because if the schema, but I wouldn't consider it an advantage)

My point is: it's better to implement one of the existing standards than invent a new one imho.


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[Floby]

I though we had gzip