Serialize++
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serialization library
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How HN took it
1 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.28.
Execution: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 against
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Looks nice to use, at least for the happy path
From 1 comment
Looks nice to use, at least for the happy path. I'd also say it looks a lot like the non-intrusive pattern for the boost serialization library. That's my default tool for this…
hoistbypetard on HN
Objections
Names with double underscores and global namespace pollution make it unsafe to integrate
From 3 comments
Being only five hundred lines doesn't disqualify it from being a library. But being impossible to safely integrate into other projects because of illegal names and polluting the…
cygaril on HNNote that names containing double underscores are reserved in C++ for the C++ implementation, which your library is not part of. Using such names can lead to all sorts of…
zabzonk on HNSome quick and dirty things to make this useful, put it all in one header and wrap your code in a namespace. No really viable as a dependency otherwise.
unlinked_dll on HN
No endianness handling; not portable across byte orders
From 2 comments
Does it handle endianness?
pubby on HN> The code stems for the same-machine IPC library. No point in doing any byte order normalization. Some processors can run one process in one byte order, and another process in…
chrisseaton on HN
No version skew handling between differing struct versions
From 2 comments
Does this work if the two communicating processes use different versions of the struct?
kjgkjhfkjf on HNIt'd be useful if you mentioned this in your caveats list, since version skew is a common gotcha that some serialization technologies (e.g. protobuf) are designed explicitly to…
kjgkjhfkjf on HN
Requests
Document caveats such as schema version mismatch
From 1 comment
It'd be useful if you mentioned this in your caveats list, since version skew is a common gotcha that some serialization technologies (e.g. protobuf) are designed explicitly to…
kjgkjhfkjf on HN
Put everything in one header and wrap in a namespace
From 1 comment
Some quick and dirty things to make this useful, put it all in one header and wrap your code in a namespace. No really viable as a dependency otherwise.
unlinked_dll on HN
Questions
What problem does it solve that other serialization libraries don't?
From 1 comment
I’m curious what problem this is trying to solve that hasn’t been already solved in many other ways. There are so many serialization libraries for C++. The API for this isn’t too…
hellofunk on HN
Does it work across different struct versions?
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Does this work if the two communicating processes use different versions of the struct?
kjgkjhfkjf on HN
Alternatives named
cereal
From 1 comment
You can add https://github.com/USCiLab/cereal to your footnotes as it works in a similar way: you list the fields of your structure in a serialize function.
Jyaif on HN
YAS
From 1 comment
I’m curious what problem this is trying to solve that hasn’t been already solved in many other ways. There are so many serialization libraries for C++. The API for this isn’t too…
hellofunk on HN
Boost serialization
From 1 comment
Looks nice to use, at least for the happy path. I'd also say it looks a lot like the non-intrusive pattern for the boost serialization library. That's my default tool for this…
hoistbypetard on HN
Protocol Buffers
From 2 comments
I want to store data as binary, and generally I would just lay everything in arrays, write the vector size as an int, the type id (arbitrary value) as a char, write data, done. I…
jokoon on HNIt'd be useful if you mentioned this in your caveats list, since version skew is a common gotcha that some serialization technologies (e.g. protobuf) are designed explicitly to…
kjgkjhfkjf on HN