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# Smile Data Format



"Smile" is a binary data format that defines a binary equivalent of standard

[JSON](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON) data format.



Format was specified in 2010 by [Jackson](../../../jackson) JSON processor development team.

First compliant implementation was included as a Jackson backend for Jackson version 1.6,

released in September 2010.



##  Specification



Design documentation includes:



* [Smile Format Specification](smile-specification.md)  describes format itself; how it works and what a compliant parser/generator implementations needs to do.

* [Smile Format Design Goals](smile-design-goals.md) explains rationale for design decisions concerning specification.



## Community



* [Smile format Google group](http://groups.google.com/group/smile-format-discussion)



## Documentation



* [SmileFAQ](smile-faq.md)

* [Smile Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_(data_interchange_format))

* User documentation:

    * [Understanding Smile data format](https://medium.com/code-with-ayush/understanding-smile-a-data-format-based-on-json-29972a37d376)



## Implementations



Smile Codecs



*  [Clojure](http://clojure.org) 

    * [Cheshire](https://github.com/dakrone/cheshire) library offers support via Jackson `jackson-dataformat-smile`

* C

    * [libsmile](https://github.com/pierre/libsmile) is a small C-library for reading and writing Smile data.

* Go

    * [go-smile](https://github.com/zencoder/go-smile) Smile decoder written in Golang.

* Java

    * [Jackson](../../../jackson) provides Smile support through [jackson-dataformat-smile](../../../jackson-dataformats-binary) modules) format codec

        * Full support: including streaming access, data binding and tree model (100% parity with textual JSON)

        * [Jackson 2.9](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-2.9) added "non-blocking" ((aka "asynchronous") decoding for JSON and Smile format backends

    * [Protostuff](http://github.com/protostuff/protostuff) project supports Smile both as a low-level data format, and as format used for its RPC implementation

* Javascript

    * [smile-js](https://github.com/ngyewch/smile-js) Smile decoder written in Javascript (only decodes (reads), does not encode (write)) 

* Kotlin Multiplatform

    * [kotlinx-serialization-smile](https://github.com/vooft/kotlinx-serialization-smile) pure Kotlin Multiplatform implementation for `kotlinx-serialization`, supports JVM, Native, JS, etc

* Python

    * [NewSmile](https://pypi.org/project/newsmile/) Another Smile Format Decoder/Encoder for Python 3

    * [PySmile](https://github.com/jhosmer/PySmile) Python codec

* Rust

    * [serde-smile](https://github.com/sfackler/serde-smile) Serde serializer and deserializer written in Rust.



Frameworks, Systems that use Smile codec (encoder and decoder)



* [Elastic Search](http://www.elastic.co) uses Smile as transport format supports access using Smile encoding.

* [Apache Solr](http://lucene.apache.org/solr) can use Smile as the response format with the `wt=smile` parameter.



## Related Publications



Here are some external articles, blog posts, research papers that may be of interest:



* [A Survey of JSON-compatible Binary Serialization Specifications](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02089)

* [A Benchmark of JSON-compatible Binary Serialization Specifications](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03051)