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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ugorji/go/codec/README.md b/vendor/github.com/ugorji/go/codec/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..91cb3a27b --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/ugorji/go/codec/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,148 @@ +# Codec + +High Performance, Feature-Rich Idiomatic Go codec/encoding library for +binc, msgpack, cbor, json. + +Supported Serialization formats are: + + - msgpack: https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack + - binc: http://github.com/ugorji/binc + - cbor: http://cbor.io http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049 + - json: http://json.org http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159 + - simple: + +To install: + + go get github.com/ugorji/go/codec + +This package understands the `unsafe` tag, to allow using unsafe semantics: + + - When decoding into a struct, you need to read the field name as a string + so you can find the struct field it is mapped to. + Using `unsafe` will bypass the allocation and copying overhead of `[]byte->string` conversion. + +To use it, you must pass the `unsafe` tag during install: + +``` +go install -tags=unsafe github.com/ugorji/go/codec +``` + +Online documentation: http://godoc.org/github.com/ugorji/go/codec +Detailed Usage/How-to Primer: http://ugorji.net/blog/go-codec-primer + +The idiomatic Go support is as seen in other encoding packages in +the standard library (ie json, xml, gob, etc). + +Rich Feature Set includes: + + - Simple but extremely powerful and feature-rich API + - Very High Performance. + Our extensive benchmarks show us outperforming Gob, Json, Bson, etc by 2-4X. + - Multiple conversions: + Package coerces types where appropriate + e.g. decode an int in the stream into a float, etc. + - Corner Cases: + Overflows, nil maps/slices, nil values in streams are handled correctly + - Standard field renaming via tags + - Support for omitting empty fields during an encoding + - Encoding from any value and decoding into pointer to any value + (struct, slice, map, primitives, pointers, interface{}, etc) + - Extensions to support efficient encoding/decoding of any named types + - Support encoding.(Binary|Text)(M|Unm)arshaler interfaces + - Decoding without a schema (into a interface{}). + Includes Options to configure what specific map or slice type to use + when decoding an encoded list or map into a nil interface{} + - Encode a struct as an array, and decode struct from an array in the data stream + - Comprehensive support for anonymous fields + - Fast (no-reflection) encoding/decoding of common maps and slices + - Code-generation for faster performance. + - Support binary (e.g. messagepack, cbor) and text (e.g. json) formats + - Support indefinite-length formats to enable true streaming + (for formats which support it e.g. json, cbor) + - Support canonical encoding, where a value is ALWAYS encoded as same sequence of bytes. + This mostly applies to maps, where iteration order is non-deterministic. + - NIL in data stream decoded as zero value + - Never silently skip data when decoding. + User decides whether to return an error or silently skip data when keys or indexes + in the data stream do not map to fields in the struct. + - Encode/Decode from/to chan types (for iterative streaming support) + - Drop-in replacement for encoding/json. `json:` key in struct tag supported. + - Provides a RPC Server and Client Codec for net/rpc communication protocol. + - Handle unique idiosyncrasies of codecs e.g. + - For messagepack, configure how ambiguities in handling raw bytes are resolved + - For messagepack, provide rpc server/client codec to support + msgpack-rpc protocol defined at: + https://github.com/msgpack-rpc/msgpack-rpc/blob/master/spec.md + +## Extension Support + +Users can register a function to handle the encoding or decoding of +their custom types. + +There are no restrictions on what the custom type can be. Some examples: + + type BisSet []int + type BitSet64 uint64 + type UUID string + type MyStructWithUnexportedFields struct { a int; b bool; c []int; } + type GifImage struct { ... } + +As an illustration, MyStructWithUnexportedFields would normally be +encoded as an empty map because it has no exported fields, while UUID +would be encoded as a string. However, with extension support, you can +encode any of these however you like. + +## RPC + +RPC Client and Server Codecs are implemented, so the codecs can be used +with the standard net/rpc package. + +## Usage + +Typical usage model: + + // create and configure Handle + var ( + bh codec.BincHandle + mh codec.MsgpackHandle + ch codec.CborHandle + ) + + mh.MapType = reflect.TypeOf(map[string]interface{}(nil)) + + // configure extensions + // e.g. for msgpack, define functions and enable Time support for tag 1 + // mh.SetExt(reflect.TypeOf(time.Time{}), 1, myExt) + + // create and use decoder/encoder + var ( + r io.Reader + w io.Writer + b []byte + h = &bh // or mh to use msgpack + ) + + dec = codec.NewDecoder(r, h) + dec = codec.NewDecoderBytes(b, h) + err = dec.Decode(&v) + + enc = codec.NewEncoder(w, h) + enc = codec.NewEncoderBytes(&b, h) + err = enc.Encode(v) + + //RPC Server + go func() { + for { + conn, err := listener.Accept() + rpcCodec := codec.GoRpc.ServerCodec(conn, h) + //OR rpcCodec := codec.MsgpackSpecRpc.ServerCodec(conn, h) + rpc.ServeCodec(rpcCodec) + } + }() + + //RPC Communication (client side) + conn, err = net.Dial("tcp", "localhost:5555") + rpcCodec := codec.GoRpc.ClientCodec(conn, h) + //OR rpcCodec := codec.MsgpackSpecRpc.ClientCodec(conn, h) + client := rpc.NewClientWithCodec(rpcCodec) + |