DEPRECATED as of May 29, 2013. Please use github.com/ugorji/go/codec
which is significantly faster, cleaner, more correct and more complete.
See [https://github.com/ugorji/go/tree/master/codec#readme]A complete redesign was done which accomodates multiple codec formats. It thus became necessary to create a new repository with a different name.
I hope to retire this repository anytime from July 1, 2013.
A log message will be printed out at runtime encouraging users to upgrade.
Implements:
[http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/Format+specification]
To install:
go get github.com/ugorji/go-msgpack
It provides features similar to encoding packages in the standard library (ie json, xml, gob, etc).
Supports:
- Standard Marshal/Unmarshal interface.
- Support for all exported fields (including anonymous fields)
- Standard field renaming via tags
- Encoding from any value (struct, slice, map, primitives, pointers, interface{}, etc)
- Decoding into pointer to any non-nil value (struct, slice, map, int, float32, bool, string, etc)
- Decoding into a nil interface{}
- Handles time.Time transparently (stores time as 2 element array: seconds since epoch and nanosecond offset)
- Provides a Server and Client Codec so msgpack can be used as communication protocol for net/rpc.
- Also includes an option for msgpack-rpc: http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/RPC+specification
API docs: http://godoc.org/github.com/ugorji/go-msgpack
dec = msgpack.NewDecoder(r, nil)
err = dec.Decode(&v)
enc = msgpack.NewEncoder(w)
err = enc.Encode(v)
//methods below are convenience methods over functions above.
data, err = msgpack.Marshal(v)
err = msgpack.Unmarshal(data, &v, nil)
//RPC Server
conn, err := listener.Accept()
rpcCodec := msgpack.NewRPCServerCodec(conn, nil)
rpc.ServeCodec(rpcCodec)
//RPC Communication (client side)
conn, err = net.Dial("tcp", "localhost:5555")
rpcCodec := msgpack.NewRPCClientCodec(conn, nil)
client := rpc.NewClientWithCodec(rpcCodec)