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'''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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== Serialization formats ==
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* [[Avro]]
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* [[Bebop]] [https://rainway.com/blog/2020/12/09/bebop-an-efficient-schema-based-binary-serialization-format/]
 
* [[Bencode]] (used by BitTorrent)
 
* [[Bencode]] (used by BitTorrent)
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* [[BSON]]
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* [[Cap'n Proto]]
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* [[CBOR]] ([https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8949/ RFC 8949]) ([http://cbor.io/ CBOR description])
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* [[CoffeeScript-Object-Notation]] (CSON)
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* [[Concise Encoding]] [https://concise-encoding.org/]
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* [[Cursive Script Object Notation]]
 
* [[DER]] (Distinguished Encoding Rules)
 
* [[DER]] (Distinguished Encoding Rules)
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* [[Doge Serialized Object Notation]] (DSON)
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* [[FDF]]
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* [[FlatBuffers]]
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* [[Form URL encoding]] (application/x-www-form-urlencoded)
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* [[Hjson]]
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* [[I-JSON]]
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* [[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)
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* [[JSON5]] (.json5) [http://json5.org/]
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* [[JSONB]] [https://sqlite.org/draft/jsonb.html]
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* [[JSONH]] [https://github.com/WebReflection/JSONH]
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* [[JSONx]]
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* [[LCON]] [https://github.com/ar-nelson/lcon]
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* [[MessagePack]] [http://msgpack.org/index.html]
 
* [[Microsoft XNA Compiled Format]] (.xnb)
 
* [[Microsoft XNA Compiled Format]] (.xnb)
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* [[Minecraft NBT format]]
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* [[Multipart/Form-Data]]
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* [[OLE Property Set]]
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* [[Pickle]] (Python)
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* [[PostScript binary object format]]
 
* [[Property List]] (.plist)
 
* [[Property List]] (.plist)
* [[Protobuf]] (a Google format also used within IWA)
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* [[Protobuf]] (Protocol Buffers; a Google format also used within IWA)
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* [[RELOAD]]
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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]]
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* [[Transit]] [https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format]
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* [[UXF (Uniform Exchange Format)]] [https://github.com/mark-summerfield/uxf]
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* [[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)
* [[Pickle]] (Python 2)
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== Miscellaneous related things ==
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* [[EDI]]
  
 
== See Also ==
 
== See Also ==
* [[Text-based data]]
 
* [[Metaformats]]
 
 
* [[Databases]]
 
* [[Databases]]
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* [[Markup]]
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* [[Metaformats]]
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* [[Protocols]]
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* [[Text-based data]]
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* [[Transfer Encodings]]

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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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[edit] Miscellaneous related things

[edit] See Also

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