cereal Alternatives - C++ Serialization

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Programming language: C++

Tags: Serialization

Latest version: v1.3.0

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9.9 9.4 L1 cereal VS protobuf

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9.6 8.9 L1 cereal VS FlatBuffers

A Memory efficient serialization library. [Apache2]
MessagePack

7.8 7.0 L1 cereal VS MessagePack

Efficient binary serialization format "like JSON" for C/C++. [Apache2] website
Bond

7.6 5.6 L3 cereal VS Bond

Bond is a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language de/serialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services.
SimpleBinaryEncoding

7.6 9.2 L1 cereal VS SimpleBinaryEncoding

encoding and decoding application messages in binary format for low-latency applications. [Apache2]
protobuf-c

7.4 4.2 L2 cereal VS protobuf-c

Protocol Buffers implementation in C. [BSD]
The IOD Library

5.3 3.8 L2 cereal VS The IOD Library

C++14 compile time reflexion and others meta programming tools
Nameof C++

4.7 8.2 cereal VS Nameof C++

Nameof operator for modern C++
smf

4.2 5.9 cereal VS smf

Fastest RPC in the west
Magic Enum C++

3.8 8.4 cereal VS Magic Enum C++

Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
Bitsery

3.8 5.0 cereal VS Bitsery

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cppcodec

3.8 0.0 L2 cereal VS cppcodec

Header-only C++11 library to encode/decode base64, base32 and hex with consistent, flexible API. [MIT]
protozero

3.6 5.9 L2 cereal VS protozero

Minimalist protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++
Boost.Serialization

3.3 5.7 L3 cereal VS Boost.Serialization

Boost.org serialization module
LeapSerial

2.5 0.0 L4 cereal VS LeapSerial

The Leap Motion cross-format, cross-platform declarative serialization library
cppbor

1.1 0.0 cereal VS cppbor

An implementation of cbor using C++ 17 variants

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cereal - A C++11 library for serialization

cereal is a header-only C++11 serialization library. cereal takes arbitrary data types and reversibly turns them into different representations, such as compact binary encodings, XML, or JSON. cereal was designed to be fast, light-weight, and easy to extend - it has no external dependencies and can be easily bundled with other code or used standalone.

cereal has great documentation

Looking for more information on how cereal works and its documentation? Visit cereal's web page to get the latest information.

cereal is easy to use

Installation and use of of cereal is fully documented on the main web page, but this is a quick and dirty version:

Download cereal and place the headers somewhere your code can see them
Write serialization functions for your custom types or use the built in support for the standard library cereal provides
Use the serialization archives to load and save data

#include <cereal/types/unordered_map.hpp>
#include <cereal/types/memory.hpp>
#include <cereal/archives/binary.hpp>
#include <fstream>

struct MyRecord
{
  uint8_t x, y;
  float z;

  template <class Archive>
  void serialize( Archive & ar )
  {
    ar( x, y, z );
  }
};

struct SomeData
{
  int32_t id;
  std::shared_ptr<std::unordered_map<uint32_t, MyRecord>> data;

  template <class Archive>
  void save( Archive & ar ) const
  {
    ar( data );
  }

  template <class Archive>
  void load( Archive & ar )
  {
    static int32_t idGen = 0;
    id = idGen++;
    ar( data );
  }
};

int main()
{
  std::ofstream os("out.cereal", std::ios::binary);
  cereal::BinaryOutputArchive archive( os );

  SomeData myData;
  archive( myData );

  return 0;
}

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cereal has a permissive license

cereal is licensed under the BSD license.

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cereal

A C++11 library for serialization. [BSD]