data serialization

data for a wire

serialization

The 2 main axes of serialization: text/binary and schema/self-describing

widely supported

• json: text, self-describing
  • json schema, jsonrpc, openapi, ... for schemas
• protobuf: binary, schema
  • prototext for text representation
  • protojson for mapping to json

seriously consider

• cbor: binary, self-describing
• flatbuffers: like protobuf, but more optimized for storage than transmission