barrique 1.0.0 - Docs.rs

Barrique is a schema-based binary serialization format featuring compression, metadata and streaming. The format was designed for locally storing large (>8 MiB) long-term memory objects.

The format is capable of storing any data representable in a sequence of bytes, meaning a schema is required to interpret the bytes. Data stored in regions up to 64 KiB - 1 bytes of raw bytes, each region holds a header. The specification has two available formats: Stream and Frame. Frame is a wrapper for Stream featuring a metadata header and a magic number. Stream is a core structure the format declares representing a sequence of regions.

Implementation

Standard barrique implementation published as a Rust crate. The implementation features in-place initialization for decoding pipeline and #[derive(...)] macros, an example of which showed below:

use barrique::{Encode, Decode};

#[derive(Encode, Decode)]
struct Hello {
    hello: String,
    world: World,
}

#[derive(Encode, Decode)]
enum World {
    Flat(i32, #[barrique(skip)] u8),
    Circular
}

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Specification

Barrique serialization format specification declared here