lua-MessagePack


Overview

MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format.

It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON but it's faster and smaller.

It's a pure Lua implementation, without dependency.

It's really fast with LuaJIT.

References

The MessagePack specification is available at github.com/msgpack/msgpack.

Status

lua-MessagePack is in production/stable stage.

It's developed for Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 & 5.4. There are 2 variants:

  • one compatible with all interpreters since Lua 5.1
  • another which uses the Lua 5.3 features

Download

The sources are hosted on Framagit.

The Teal type definition of this library is available here.

Installation

lua-MessagePack is available via LuaRocks:

luarocks install lua-messagepack
# luarocks install lua-messagepack-lua53

lua-MessagePack is available via opm:

opm get fperrad/lua-messagepack

or manually, with:

make install LUAVER=5.2

Test

The test suite requires the module lua-TestAssertion.

make test

Copyright © 2012-2023 François Perrad

This library is licensed under the terms of the MIT/X11 license, like Lua itself.