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== Serialization formats ==
 
== Serialization formats ==
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* [[Avro]]
 
* [[Bencode]] (used by BitTorrent)
 
* [[Bencode]] (used by BitTorrent)
 
* [[BSON]]
 
* [[BSON]]
* [[Cap'n Proto]] [https://capnproto.org/]
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* [[Cap'n Proto]]
 
* [[CBOR]] (RFC 7049) [http://cbor.io/]
 
* [[CBOR]] (RFC 7049) [http://cbor.io/]
 
* [[CoffeeScript-Object-Notation]] (CSON)
 
* [[CoffeeScript-Object-Notation]] (CSON)
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* [[DER]] (Distinguished Encoding Rules)
 
* [[DER]] (Distinguished Encoding Rules)
 
* [[FDF]]
 
* [[FDF]]
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* [[FlatBuffers]]
 
* [[Form URL encoding]] (application/x-www-form-urlencoded)
 
* [[Form URL encoding]] (application/x-www-form-urlencoded)
 
* [[Hjson]]
 
* [[Hjson]]
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* [[Ion]] [https://amznlabs.github.io/ion-docs/]
 
* [[Ion]] [https://amznlabs.github.io/ion-docs/]
 
* [[IWA]] (Apple iWork serialization; .iwa)
 
* [[IWA]] (Apple iWork serialization; .iwa)
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* [[Java Object Serialization]]
 
* [[JSON]] (.json)
 
* [[JSON]] (.json)
 
* [[JSON5]] (.json5) [http://json5.org/]
 
* [[JSON5]] (.json5) [http://json5.org/]
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* [[MessagePack]] [http://msgpack.org/index.html]
 
* [[MessagePack]] [http://msgpack.org/index.html]
 
* [[Microsoft XNA Compiled Format]] (.xnb)
 
* [[Microsoft XNA Compiled Format]] (.xnb)
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* [[Minecraft NBT format]]
 
* [[Multipart/Form-Data]]
 
* [[Multipart/Form-Data]]
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* [[OLE Property Set]]
 
* [[Pickle]] (Python)
 
* [[Pickle]] (Python)
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* [[PostScript]] Binary Object Format
 
* [[Property List]] (.plist)
 
* [[Property List]] (.plist)
 
* [[Protobuf]] (Protocol Buffers; a Google format also used within IWA)
 
* [[Protobuf]] (Protocol Buffers; a Google format also used within IWA)
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* [[Simple Binary Encoding]]
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** [[SBE Intermediate Representation]]
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* Thrift
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** [[Thrift binary protocol]]
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** [[Thrift compact protocol]]
 
* [[Transit]] [https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format]
 
* [[Transit]] [https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format]
 
* [[XFDF]]
 
* [[XFDF]]
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* [[XML]] (originally intended only as a markup format, but ended up as probably the most popular serialization format)
 
* [[YAML]] (.yaml)
 
* [[YAML]] (.yaml)
  
 
== See Also ==
 
== See Also ==
* [[Text-based data]]
 
* [[Metaformats]]
 
 
* [[Databases]]
 
* [[Databases]]
 
* [[Markup]]
 
* [[Markup]]
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* [[Metaformats]]
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* [[Protocols]]
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* [[Text-based data]]
 
* [[Transfer Encodings]]
 
* [[Transfer Encodings]]

Revision as of 01:39, 5 January 2020

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No, I said serial, idiot.

No, I said serial, idiot.

Serialization is used to transform data structures (as used within a program, in whatever native formats might be used by the programming language the program is in) into a file or data stream of standardized format to be saved for later use, or transmitted through a network to be used by a different program elsewhere.

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