Data Serialization in Go
Data Serialization in Go
The Complete Guide to JSON and Other Serialization Formats in Go
About the Book
Strict types, a lack of object-oriented features, and no generics are just some of the limitations that apply to data serialization in Go. Proper and efficient data serialization can be daunting even for the most experienced Go developer. For the newcomer, it's often overwhelming and infuriating.
This book grew out of several years of experience building and maintaining Kivik (https://kivik.io/), the popular CouchDB driver/SDK for Go. In working with CouchDB, which relies heavily on sophisticated manipulation of JSON documents, the author developed several novel techniques and approaches to solve common problems encountered in data serialization.
This work-in-progress book consolidates all of the author's knowledge, research, and tips and tricks on the subject, in a single place.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Contents
-
Introduction (WIP)
-
What is Data Serialization
- Subtleties
- Serialization is key
- History (TODO)
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- When the decision has been made for you
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- BSON (TODO)
- MessagePack (TODO)
- Smile (TODO)
- Ion (TODO)
- CBOR (TODO)
- XML (TODO)
- Protobuf (TODO)
- CSV (TODO)
- Custom \& proprietary formats (TODO)
-
What is Data Serialization
-
Getting Started with JSON (TODO)
- The encoding/json Package (TODO)
- Marshaling JSON (TODO)
- Unmarshaling JSON (TODO)
- Creating a Custom Marshaler (TODO)
- Creating a Custom Unmarshaler (TODO)
- Relationship to the encoding Package (TODO)
- json.Encoder Options (TODO)
- json.Decoder Options (TODO)
- Streaming Limitations (TODO)
- Best Practices for Readable Serialization Code (TODO)
- Using a Linter (TODO)
-
Data Serialization Toolbox (WIP)
- Pointer vs Value Receivers (TODO)
- The Self-Referencing (Un)Marshaler
- Configurable Marshalers (TODO)
- Validation of input and output (TODO)
- Embedding fields (TODO)
- Internal types (TODO)
- Combining JSON Objects
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Working with Simple Types (TODO)
- Standard Types (TODO)
- Numbers (TODO)
-
Wrapping Existing Types
- Regular Expressions
- time.Time
- Extending an Embedded Marshaler
- Combining Multiple Structs Into a Single JSON Object
- A Single JSON Object to Multiple Go Structs
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Streaming JSON Output (WIP)
- Producing an io.Reader from an Object
- Providing a net/http.Request.GetBody Function
- Optimizing for Memory Usage (TODO)
- json.NewEncoder For Shorter Code (TODO)
- Optimizing for Memory Usage (TODO)
- JSON Tokenizer (TODO)
-
Working with YAML (TODO)
- What is YAML (TODO)
- When to use YAML (TODO)
- Converting JSON to YAML (TODO)
- Converting YAML to JSON (TODO)
- What is BSON (TODO)
- When to use BSON (TODO)
- Converting JSON to BSON (TODO)
- Converting BSON to JSON (TODO)
- What is MessagePack (TODO)
- When to use MessagePack (TODO)
- Converting JSON to MessagePack (TODO)
- Converting MessagePack to JSON (TODO)
- What is CBOR (TODO)
- When to use CBOR (TODO)
- Converting JSON to CBOR (TODO)
- Converting CBOR to JSON (TODO)
- What is TOML (TODO)
- When to use TOML (TODO)
- Converting JSON to TOML (TODO)
- Converting TOML to JSON (TODO)
- What is XML (TODO)
- When to use XML (TODO)
- What is ProtoBuf (TODO)
- When to use ProtoBuf (TODO)
- Converting to ProtoBuf (TODO)
- Converting from ProtoBuf (TODO)
- INI (TODO)
- Smile (TODO)
- Comma-Separated Values (CSV) (TODO)
- Custom \& Proprietary Formats (TODO)
-
Related Formats and Concepts (TODO)
- Binary-to-Text: URL Encoding, Base64, Etc (TODO)
- VarInt (TODO)
- MIME (TODO)
- Data Compression (TODO)
-
Third-Party Libraries (TODO)
- github.com/valyala/fastjson (TODO)
- github.com/json-iterator/go (TODO)
- ffjson (TODO)
- Others (TODO)
- Alphabetical Index
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