Re: Lua 5.1-5.3 serialization library

["Timm S. Mueller" <tmueller@...>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:08:31 +0100
Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:

> Am 14.01.2015 um 13:51 schröbte Timm S. Mueller:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi!
> 
> >
> > before I'm starting to write my own, I'm looking for a serialization
> > and deserialization library. Requirements:
> >
> > - must cover Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and LuaJIT
> > - in the MIT/BSD/CC/PD license department
> > - must cover cyclic references and binary data
> > - preferrably written in C for performance, Lua would be fine also
> > - should only use official Lua APIs, no outside dependencies, no state
> > internals
> > - The transport format should be legal Lua, but this isn't strictly a
> > requirement and may be sacrificed if the result can be transported,
> > preferrably also between different architectures and Lua versions. I'm
> > not objecting to using JSON format either.
> >
> > Not required: Userdata, metatables, functions and upvalues. A small
> > footprint and the ability to operate on a writer/readers would be nice.
> > Any ideas, recommendations?
> >
> 
> Have you ruled out those[1]?

Not all, I'm still working through that list, but I found not a single
mention of 5.2, and 5.3 was only recently released. Many entries depend
on old versions, do write to a file, miss handling for cyclic
references. Eris and Pluto are ruled out for version specificy and
looking into state internals. Data Dumper and Serpent are close to my
requirements, but there may be others which I am not aware of or
achieve the same in C or use JSON as a transport format, for example.

> Philipp
> 
>    [1]: http://lua-users.org/wiki/TableSerialization

- Timm

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