MessagePack encoding for Golang

Supports:

• Primitives, arrays, maps, structs, time.Time and interface{}.
• Appengine *datastore.Key and datastore.Cursor.
• CustomEncoder/CustomDecoder interfaces for custom encoding.
• Extensions to encode type information.
• Fields renaming, e.g. msgpack:"my_field_name".
• Structs inlining, e.g. msgpack:",inline".
• Omitempty flag, e.g. msgpack:",omitempty".

API docs: http://godoc.org/gopkg.in/vmihailenco/msgpack.v2. Examples: http://godoc.org/gopkg.in/vmihailenco/msgpack.v2#pkg-examples.

Installation

Install:

go get gopkg.in/vmihailenco/msgpack.v2

Quickstart

func ExampleMarshal() {
	b, err := msgpack.Marshal(true)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("%#v\n", b)
	// Output:

	var out bool
	err = msgpack.Unmarshal([]byte{0xc3}, &out)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(out)
	// Output: []byte{0xc3}
	// true
}

Benchmark

BenchmarkStruct-4               	  200000	     11515 ns/op	    3296 B/op	      27 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructUgorjiGoMsgpack-4	  100000	     12234 ns/op	    3840 B/op	      70 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructUgorjiGoCodec-4  	  100000	     15251 ns/op	    7474 B/op	      29 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructJSON-4           	   30000	     50851 ns/op	    8088 B/op	      29 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructGOB-4            	   20000	     64993 ns/op	   15609 B/op	     299 allocs/op

Howto

Please go through examples to get an idea how to use this package.