Re: Lua 5.1-5.3 serialization library

["Timm S. Mueller" <tmueller@...>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:34:29 -0500
Patrick Donnelly <batrick@batbytes.com> wrote:

> Hi Timm,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Timm S. Mueller
> <tmueller@schulze-mueller.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > before I'm starting to write my own, I'm looking for a serialization
> > and deserialization library. Requirements:
> >
> > - must cover Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and LuaJIT
> > - in the MIT/BSD/CC/PD license department
> > - must cover cyclic references and binary data
> > - preferrably written in C for performance, Lua would be fine also
> > - should only use official Lua APIs, no outside dependencies, no state
> > internals
> > - The transport format should be legal Lua, but this isn't strictly a
> > requirement and may be sacrificed if the result can be transported,
> > preferrably also between different architectures and Lua versions. I'm
> > not objecting to using JSON format either.
> 
> I just uploaded a serialization library [1] I wrote a few years ago
> for an IRC bot. It's pure Lua and handles all of your requirements,
> except perhaps 5.2, 5.3, and LuaJIT. I haven't tested on those
> platforms. The output is Lua code.

Thanks, added to my testbed. (although it's GPL... :-)

> > Not required: Userdata, metatables, functions and upvalues. A small
> > footprint and the ability to operate on a writer/readers would be nice.
> > Any ideas, recommendations?
> 
> It also completely handles metatables and Lua functions with shared upvalues.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/batrick/lua-serialize

- Timm

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