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
wiki.msgpack.org.
Status
lua-MessagePack is in beta stage.
It's developed for Lua 5.1 & 5.2.
Download
lua-MessagePack source can be downloaded from GitHub.
Installation
lua-MessagePack is available via LuaRocks:
luarocks install lua-messagepack
or manually, with:
make install
Test
The test suite requires the module lua-TestMore.
make test
Copyright and License
Copyright © 2012 François Perrad
This library is licensed under the terms of the MIT/X11 license, like Lua itself.