MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small.

Re:MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small. by fshafique on Saturday January 11, 2025 @03:58AM (#42664447)

Does it solve the problem of repeating set of keys in an object array, eg. when representing a table?

I don't think using a dictionary of key values is the way to go here. I think there should be a dedicated "table" type, where the column keys are only defined once, and not repeated for every single row.

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Re:MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small. by ubutler on Saturday January 11, 2025 @04:02AM (#42664465)

MessagePack can encode rows as well and then you just need to manage linking the keys during deserialization. In fact, it can encode arbitrary binary without needing base64 like JSON.

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Re:MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small. by feverzsj on Saturday January 11, 2025 @04:29AM (#42664574)

You can just use array of array like most scientific applications do.

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Re:MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small. by fshafique on Saturday January 11, 2025 @07:23PM (#42670089)

I can do that with JSON too. I was hoping MessagePack would have built-in functionality to do it.

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