https://github.com/creationix/msgpack-js

The msgpack protocol implemented in pure javascript.
https://github.com/creationix/msgpack-js

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The msgpack protocol implemented in pure javascript.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/creationix/msgpack-js
• Owner: creationix
• License: mit
• Created: 2010-12-11T11:33:46.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-03-05T16:57:01.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-23T01:04:43.849Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://msgpack.org/
• Size: 38.1 KB
• Stars: 253
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 48
• Open Issues: 14
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.markdown
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# msgpack for JavaScript

[![node support](https://travis-ci.org/creationix/msgpack-js.png)](https://travis-ci.org/creationix/msgpack-js)

[![browser support](https://ci.testling.com/creationix/msgpack-js.png)](https://ci.testling.com/creationix/msgpack-js)

A handwritten msgpack encoder and decoder for Node.JS and modern browsers.

The original format can be found at 

## Extension

I've extended the format a little to allow for encoding and decoding of `undefined` and `Buffer` instances.

This required three new type codes that were previously marked as "reserved".

This change means that using these new types will render your serialized data

incompatible with other messagepack implementations that don't have the same

extension.

There are two new types for storing node `Buffer` instances. These work just 

like "raw 16" and "raw 32" except they are node buffers instead of strings.

    buffer 16  11011000  0xd8

    buffer 32  11011001  0xd9

Also I've added a type for `undefined` that works just like the `null` type.

    undefined  11000100  0xc4

## Usage

``` javascript

var msgpack = require('msgpack-js');

var assert = require('assert');

var initial = {Hello: "World"};

var encoded = msgpack.encode(initial);

var decoded = msgpack.decode(encoded);

assert.deepEqual(initial, decoded);

```