Mzg: A MessagePack library for Zig

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So I guess this is gonna be the 3rd MessagePack library here GitHub - uyha/mzg: A MessagePack library for Zig

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Thanks for sharing! Welcome to the message pack club! :slight_smile:

Yeah I don’t think any of us have settled on a good way for customizations yet, and I didn’t even figure out how to correctly use the writer interface.

Also the writer interface is expected to change soon.

The way I did customizations was to generate a type for the value passed for serialization, which honestly was bad since it’s almost impossible for the user to figure out what options there are.

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Yeah I don’t think any of us have settled on a good way for customizations yet

For customization, I just followed strictly the way that std.json does it. What surprised me the most was the adapters since I did not originally plan for it. They just kinda fell off the sky when I saw that I can simply check for mzgPack/mzgUnpack at the very beginning. I was originally planning to wrap containers like std.ArrayList in a struct like

fn ArrayAdapter(comptime T: type) type {
  return struct {
    container: std.ArrayList(T),
    // More details
  };
};

but then the users have to access the data like adapter.container.items which I did not like at all, and with the current approach, they wrap the containers themselves and the containers get modified directly, which I like very much.

and I didn’t even figure out how to correctly use the writer interface.

I’m not sure how to use it correctly also, so I just settled on using only the writeAll function, so that if something changes, I can change it easily.