frob

Overview ¶

Package frob is a fast restricted object encoder/decoder in the spirit of encoding/gob.

As with gob, types that recursively contain functions, channels, and unsafe.Pointers cannot be encoded, but frob has these additional restrictions:

• Interface values are not supported; this avoids the need for the encoding to describe types.

• Private struct fields are ignored.

• The encoding is unspecified and subject to change, so the encoder and decoder must exactly agree on their implementation and on the definitions of the target types.

• Lengths (of arrays, slices, and maps) are currently assumed to fit in 32 bits.

• There is no error handling. All errors are reported by panicking.

• Values are serialized as trees, not graphs, so shared subgraphs are encoded repeatedly.

• No attempt is made to detect cyclic data structures.