Adler's Simple Data Format

About

This is a library I have written to serialize data in a simple and user-friendly manner.
The syntax isn't too far from that of JSON and other serialization formats.

Compile From Source

The library is ANSI C compliant, it should compile under most any standard compliant compiler.
There's a (GNU) Makefile included, run make to build the library, and make install to automatically install it to your library directory (/usr/lib by default), and the header file to the corresponding include directory (/usr/include) - these directories may be changed by setting the PREFIX variable (ex: make install PREFIX=/usr/local to install to /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include). The library may be uninstalled with make uninstall - specify PREFIX if you did so when installing.
Note: make install and make uninstall weren't written with Windows in mind and likely won't work outside some Cygwin-like environment.

Usage

The library may be linked via -lasdf and the header file included with #include <asdf/asdf.h>. If you installed it to a directory besides the one your compiler uses, use the -L and -I options.
If you're looking to use this library in a project, I recommend reading through the header file as that's really the best source of documentation as of now.
The library internally uses a Linked List structure which could potentially be a bit unwieldy, but there's a set of wrapper functions that abstract away from this and some utility functions to operate on these lists.

Syntax

The syntax is rather simple - scalar values (of type string or integer) can be assigned as follows:

key = "this is a string"
int = 86278

Arrays are also supported and follow the following syntax:

[key
    "a value"
    263789
]

Indentation does not matter given its ASCII tabs or spaces, though there should be no trailing whitespace in array key names.
It should be noted that I haven't tested this library with non-ASCII text and can't guarantee it will work.

TO-DO

As of now, I have a number of features that I may potentially add in the future:

• Floating Point Integers
• Associative Arrays
• Inline Arrays
• Variable Referencing
• UTF-8 Support
  I plan to largely rewrite this library eventually as there's a number of things I am dissatisfied with - to add the features listed above, to fix some syntactic issues, among a host of other issues I have presently.

Contact Me

Email: raucheradler@gmail.com
Discord: Raucher Adler#2085
Git: GitLab | GitHub