msgpack-long-lite
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Fast Pure JavaScript MessagePack Encoder and Decoder using long.js

Features

  • Pure JavaScript only (No node-gyp nor gcc required)
  • Faster than any other pure JavaScript libraries on node.js v4
  • Even faster than node-gyp C++ based msgpack library (90% faster on encoding)
  • Streaming encoding and decoding interface is also available. It's more faster.
  • Ready for Web browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari and even IE8
  • Tested on Node.js v10, v12, v14, v16, v18 and v20
  • Uses long.js to represent 64-bit integers instead of int64-buffer

Encoding and Decoding MessagePack

var msgpack = require("msgpack-long-lite");

// encode from JS Object to MessagePack (Buffer)
var buffer = msgpack.encode({"foo": "bar"});

// decode from MessagePack (Buffer) to JS Object
var data = msgpack.decode(buffer); // => {"foo": "bar"}

// if encode/decode receives an invalid argument an error is thrown

Writing to MessagePack Stream

var fs = require("fs");
var msgpack = require("msgpack-long-lite");

var writeStream = fs.createWriteStream("test.msp");
var encodeStream = msgpack.createEncodeStream();
encodeStream.pipe(writeStream);

// send multiple objects to stream
encodeStream.write({foo: "bar"});
encodeStream.write({baz: "qux"});

// call this once you're done writing to the stream.
encodeStream.end();

Reading from MessagePack Stream

var fs = require("fs");
var msgpack = require("msgpack-long-lite");

var readStream = fs.createReadStream("test.msp");
var decodeStream = msgpack.createDecodeStream();

// show multiple objects decoded from stream
readStream.pipe(decodeStream).on("data", console.warn);

Decoding MessagePack Bytes Array

var msgpack = require("msgpack-long-lite");

// decode() accepts Buffer instance per default
msgpack.decode(Buffer([0x81, 0xA3, 0x66, 0x6F, 0x6F, 0xA3, 0x62, 0x61, 0x72]));

// decode() also accepts Array instance
msgpack.decode([0x81, 0xA3, 0x66, 0x6F, 0x6F, 0xA3, 0x62, 0x61, 0x72]);

// decode() accepts raw Uint8Array instance as well
msgpack.decode(new Uint8Array([0x81, 0xA3, 0x66, 0x6F, 0x6F, 0xA3, 0x62, 0x61, 0x72]));

Installation

$ npm install --save msgpack-long-lite

Tests

Run tests on node.js:

$ make test

Browser Build

Browser version longmsgpack.min.js is also available. 55KB minified, 16KB gziped.

<!--[if lte IE 9]>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/es5-shim/4.1.10/es5-shim.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/json3/3.3.2/json3.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<script src="https://rawgit.com/meetnow/msgpack-long-lite/master/dist/longmsgpack.min.js"></script>
<script>
// encode from JS Object to MessagePack (Uint8Array)
var buffer = msgpack.encode({foo: "bar"});

// decode from MessagePack (Uint8Array) to JS Object
var array = new Uint8Array([0x81, 0xA3, 0x66, 0x6F, 0x6F, 0xA3, 0x62, 0x61, 0x72]);
var data = msgpack.decode(array);
</script>

MessagePack With Browserify

Step #1: write some code at first.

var msgpack = require("msgpack-long-lite");
var buffer = msgpack.encode({"foo": "bar"});
var data = msgpack.decode(buffer);
console.warn(data); // => {"foo": "bar"}

Proceed to the next steps if you prefer faster browserify compilation time.

Step #2: add browser property on package.json in your project. This refers the global msgpack object instead of including whole of msgpack-long-lite source code.

{
  "dependencies": {
    "msgpack-long-lite": "*"
  },
  "browser": {
    "msgpack-long-lite": "msgpack-long-lite/global"
  }
}

Step #3: compile it with browserify and uglifyjs.

browserify src/main.js -o tmp/main.browserify.js -s main
uglifyjs tmp/main.browserify.js -m -c -o js/main.min.js
cp node_modules/msgpack-long-lite/dist/longmsgpack.min.js js/longmsgpack.min.js

Step #4: load longmsgpack.min.js before your code.

<script src="js/longmsgpack.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/main.min.js"></script>

Interoperability

It is tested to have basic compatibility with other Node.js MessagePack modules below:

Benchmarks

A benchmark tool lib/benchmark.js is available to compare encoding/decoding speed (operation per second) with other MessagePack modules. It counts operations of 1KB JSON document in 10 seconds.

$ npm install msgpack msgpack-js msgpack-js-v5 msgpack-unpack msgpack5 notepack
$ npm run benchmark 10

Streaming benchmark tool lib/benchmark-stream.js is also available. It counts milliseconds for 1,000,000 operations of 30 bytes fluentd msgpack fragment. This shows streaming encoding and decoding are super faster.

$ npm run benchmark-stream 2

MessagePack Mapping Table

The following table shows how JavaScript objects (value) will be mapped to MessagePack formats and vice versa.

Source Value MessagePack Format Value Decoded
null, undefined nil format family null
Boolean (true, false) bool format family Boolean (true, false)
Number (32bit int) int format family Number (int or double)
Number (64bit double) float format family Number (double)
String str format family String
Buffer bin format family Buffer
Array array format family Array
Map map format family Map (if usemap=true)
Object (plain object) map format family Object (or Map if usemap=true)
Object (see below) ext format family Object (see below)

Note that both null and undefined are mapped to nil 0xC1 type. This means undefined value will be upgraded to null in other words.

Extension Types

The MessagePack specification allows 128 application-specific extension types. The library uses the following types to make round-trip conversion possible for JavaScript native objects.

Type Object Type Object
0x00 0x10
0x01 EvalError 0x11 Int8Array
0x02 RangeError 0x12 Uint8Array
0x03 ReferenceError 0x13 Int16Array
0x04 SyntaxError 0x14 Uint16Array
0x05 TypeError 0x15 Int32Array
0x06 URIError 0x16 Uint32Array
0x07 0x17 Float32Array
0x08 0x18 Float64Array
0x09 0x19 Uint8ClampedArray
0x0A RegExp 0x1A ArrayBuffer
0x0B Boolean 0x1B Buffer
0x0C String 0x1C
0x0D Date 0x1D DataView
0x0E Error 0x1E
0x0F Number 0x1F

Other extension types are mapped to built-in ExtBuffer object.

Custom Extension Types (Codecs)

Register a custom extension type number to serialize/deserialize your own class instances.

var msgpack = require("msgpack-long-lite");

var codec = msgpack.createCodec();
codec.addExtPacker(0x3F, MyVector, myVectorPacker);
codec.addExtUnpacker(0x3F, myVectorUnpacker);

var data = new MyVector(1, 2);
var encoded = msgpack.encode(data, {codec: codec});
var decoded = msgpack.decode(encoded, {codec: codec});

function MyVector(x, y) {
  this.x = x;
  this.y = y;
}

function myVectorPacker(vector) {
  var array = [vector.x, vector.y];
  return msgpack.encode(array); // return Buffer serialized
}

function myVectorUnpacker(buffer) {
  var array = msgpack.decode(buffer);
  return new MyVector(array[0], array[1]); // return Object deserialized
}

The first argument of addExtPacker and addExtUnpacker should be an integer within the range of 0 and 127 (0x0 and 0x7F). myClassPacker is a function that accepts an instance of MyClass, and should return a buffer representing that instance. myClassUnpacker is the opposite: it accepts a buffer and should return an instance of MyClass.

If you pass an array of functions to addExtPacker or addExtUnpacker, the value to be encoded/decoded will pass through each one in order. This allows you to do things like this:

codec.addExtPacker(0x00, Date, [Number, msgpack.encode]);

You can also pass the codec option to msgpack.Decoder(options), msgpack.Encoder(options), msgpack.createEncodeStream(options), and msgpack.createDecodeStream(options).

If you wish to modify the default built-in codec, you can access it at msgpack.codec.preset.

Custom Codec Options

msgpack.createCodec() function accepts some options.

It does NOT have the preset extension types defined when no options given.

var codec = msgpack.createCodec();

preset: It has the preset extension types described above.

var codec = msgpack.createCodec({preset: true});

safe: It runs a validation of the value before writing it into buffer. This is the default behavior for some old browsers which do not support ArrayBuffer object.

var codec = msgpack.createCodec({safe: true});

useraw: It uses raw formats instead of bin and str.

var codec = msgpack.createCodec({useraw: true});

int64: It decodes msgpack's int64/uint64 formats with long.js object.

var codec = msgpack.createCodec({int64: true});

binarraybuffer: It ties msgpack's bin format with ArrayBuffer object, instead of Buffer object.

var codec = msgpack.createCodec({binarraybuffer: true, preset: true});

uint8array: It returns Uint8Array object when encoding, instead of Buffer object.

var codec = msgpack.createCodec({uint8array: true});

usemap: Uses the global JavaScript Map type, if available, to unpack MessagePack map elements.

var codec = msgpack.createCodec({usemap: true});

Compatibility Mode

The compatibility mode respects for msgpack's old spec. Set true to useraw.

// default mode handles both str and bin formats individually
msgpack.encode("Aa"); // => <Buffer a2 41 61> (str format)
msgpack.encode(Buffer.from([0x41, 0x61])); // => <Buffer c4 02 41 61> (bin format)

msgpack.decode(Buffer.from([0xa2, 0x41, 0x61])); // => 'Aa' (String)
msgpack.decode(Buffer.from([0xc4, 0x02, 0x41, 0x61])); // => <Buffer 41 61> (Buffer)

// compatibility mode handles only raw format both for String and Buffer
var options = {codec: msgpack.createCodec({useraw: true})};
msgpack.encode("Aa", options); // => <Buffer a2 41 61> (raw format)
msgpack.encode(Buffer.from([0x41, 0x61]), options); // => <Buffer a2 41 61> (raw format)

msgpack.decode(Buffer.from([0xa2, 0x41, 0x61]), options); // => <Buffer 41 61> (Buffer)
msgpack.decode(Buffer.from([0xa2, 0x41, 0x61]), options).toString(); // => 'Aa' (String)

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License

The MIT License (MIT)

Original work Copyright (c) 2015 Yusuke Kawasaki
Modified work Copyright (c) 2017,2023 Patrick Schneider

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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