Serde UBJSON (Universal Binary JSON)

serde_ub_json is UBJSON serialization format implementation for Rust/Serde

Why

Structure: this format is structurally equivalent to JSON, and has the same set of data types (numbers, booleans, strings, arrays and objects).

Size: null, true and false values are 75% smaller, large numeric values are ~50% smaller, array and object containers are 1-byte-per-value smaller.

Parsing: boolean and numeric values are not encoded as strings - they are represented as bytes and do not require parsing, strings are byte arrays with length, which means they can always be safely deserialized as string slices without data copying.

How to install

cargo add serde_ub_json

Or add as a dependency in Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
serde_ub_json = "0.1"

How to use

use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
use serde_ub_json::{Result, to_bytes, from_bytes};

//...

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct Person {
    name: String,
    age: u8,
}

//...

let p = Person { name: "John Doe", age: 43 };

let bytes = to_bytes(&p)?; // serialize
let person = from_bytes::<'_, Person>(&bytes)?; // deserialize

assert_eq!(p.name, person.name);
assert_eq!(p.age, person.age);

About

This projects aims to be a complete implementation of UBJSON standard.