Re:FlexBuffers
by Aardappel on Monday June 22, 2020 @12:08PM
(#23601805)
You'd also need a way to patch the custom (de-)serializer into your "dispatch", which currently there isn't.. as unlike MsgPack, FlexBuffers doesn't actually unpack anything.
So this feature would look like a new function IsCustom1() or AsCustom1() etc, where the latter would give you a pointer to the bytes to do your own thing.. so not much difference with Blobs.
Also note that because FlexBuffers is O(1) access to elements, inline data (most scalars) is all the same size, whereas variable sized data is stored over an offset. So again, would not be very different from blobs.
So this feature would look like a new function IsCustom1() or AsCustom1() etc, where the latter would give you a pointer to the bytes to do your own thing.. so not much difference with Blobs.
Also note that because FlexBuffers is O(1) access to elements, inline data (most scalars) is all the same size, whereas variable sized data is stored over an offset. So again, would not be very different from blobs.