High Performance and Feature-Rich Idiomatic Go Library providing
encode/decode support for different serialization formats.
Supported Serialization formats are:
To install:
go get github.com/ugorji/go/codec
Online documentation: [http://godoc.org/github.com/ugorji/go/codec]
The idiomatic Go support is as seen in other encoding packages in
the standard library (ie json, xml, gob, etc).
Rich Feature Set includes:
Users can register a function to handle the encoding or decoding of
their custom types.
There are no restrictions on what the custom type can be. Some examples:
type BisSet []int
type BitSet64 uint64
type UUID string
type MyStructWithUnexportedFields struct { a int; b bool; c []int; }
type GifImage struct { ... }
As an illustration, MyStructWithUnexportedFields would normally be
encoded as an empty map because it has no exported fields, while UUID
would be encoded as a string. However, with extension support, you can
encode any of these however you like.
RPC Client and Server Codecs are implemented, so the codecs can be used
with the standard net/rpc package.
Typical usage model:
// create and configure Handle
var (
bh codec.BincHandle
mh codec.MsgpackHandle
)
mh.MapType = reflect.TypeOf(map[string]interface{}(nil))
// configure extensions
// e.g. for msgpack, define functions and enable Time support for tag 1
// mh.AddExt(reflect.TypeOf(time.Time{}), 1, myMsgpackTimeEncodeExtFn, myMsgpackTimeDecodeExtFn)
// create and use decoder/encoder
var (
r io.Reader
w io.Writer
b []byte
h = &bh // or mh to use msgpack
)
dec = codec.NewDecoder(r, h)
dec = codec.NewDecoderBytes(b, h)
err = dec.Decode(&v)
enc = codec.NewEncoder(w, h)
enc = codec.NewEncoderBytes(&b, h)
err = enc.Encode(v)
//RPC Server
go func() {
for {
conn, err := listener.Accept()
rpcCodec := codec.GoRpc.ServerCodec(conn, h)
//OR rpcCodec := codec.MsgpackSpecRpc.ServerCodec(conn, h)
rpc.ServeCodec(rpcCodec)
}
}()
//RPC Communication (client side)
conn, err = net.Dial("tcp", "localhost:5555")
rpcCodec := codec.GoRpc.ClientCodec(conn, h)
//OR rpcCodec := codec.MsgpackSpecRpc.ClientCodec(conn, h)
client := rpc.NewClientWithCodec(rpcCodec)
A sample run of benchmark using "go test -bi -bench=. -benchmem":
/proc/cpuinfo: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz (HT)
..............................................
BENCHMARK INIT: 2013-10-16 11:02:50.345970786 -0400 EDT
To run full benchmark comparing encodings (MsgPack, Binc, JSON, GOB, etc), use: "go test -bench=."
Benchmark:
Struct recursive Depth: 1
ApproxDeepSize Of benchmark Struct: 4694 bytes
Benchmark One-Pass Run:
v-msgpack: len: 1600 bytes
bson: len: 3025 bytes
msgpack: len: 1560 bytes
binc: len: 1187 bytes
gob: len: 1972 bytes
json: len: 2538 bytes
..............................................
PASS
Benchmark__Msgpack____Encode 50000 54359 ns/op 14953 B/op 83 allocs/op
Benchmark__Msgpack____Decode 10000 106531 ns/op 14990 B/op 410 allocs/op
Benchmark__Binc_NoSym_Encode 50000 53956 ns/op 14966 B/op 83 allocs/op
Benchmark__Binc_NoSym_Decode 10000 103751 ns/op 14529 B/op 386 allocs/op
Benchmark__Binc_Sym___Encode 50000 65961 ns/op 17130 B/op 88 allocs/op
Benchmark__Binc_Sym___Decode 10000 106310 ns/op 15857 B/op 287 allocs/op
Benchmark__Gob________Encode 10000 135944 ns/op 21189 B/op 237 allocs/op
Benchmark__Gob________Decode 5000 405390 ns/op 83460 B/op 1841 allocs/op
Benchmark__Json_______Encode 20000 79412 ns/op 13874 B/op 102 allocs/op
Benchmark__Json_______Decode 10000 247979 ns/op 14202 B/op 493 allocs/op
Benchmark__Bson_______Encode 10000 121762 ns/op 27814 B/op 514 allocs/op
Benchmark__Bson_______Decode 10000 162126 ns/op 16514 B/op 789 allocs/op
Benchmark__VMsgpack___Encode 50000 69155 ns/op 12370 B/op 344 allocs/op
Benchmark__VMsgpack___Decode 10000 151609 ns/op 20307 B/op 571 allocs/op
ok ugorji.net/codec 30.827s
To run full benchmark suite (including against vmsgpack and bson),
see notes in ext_dep_test.go