JSON Serialization

[radare]

Currently, libCello support binary serialization, but it would be great if it supports JSON for parsing and serializing libCello data structures.

[orangeduck]

Yeah this would be great. Probably not too difficult to add in either.

[xcthulhu]

Seconded. I would start using libCello tomorrow if it had this.

[xshifty]

Hello guys, i just "meet" Cello, and want to start collaborating with this issue, but i'm not a C expert.
Yet, can i help in this project (at this issue to be more exactly)?

[orangeduck]

Hi all. I've made some progress on this issue. In fact I have a protoype or sorts working but it depends on various changes to the core. I'll probably upload it once I have something decent working on the web framework stuff.

[q2dg]

.... :-(

[zcaudate]

I'm interested in using this feature as well, because it provides a generalised serialisation format between systems built using Cello and most other systems.

[zcaudate]

I have found that a very robust remote system can be built using:

• socket server with a simple protocol (my choice is the redis protocol)
• json serialisation of a common datastructure (maps/array)

I've implemented a bunch of these small redis-protocol based servers in clojure, lua, python and js. I did try with basic c a while back but the structure had no maps. If json serialization tcan be created on top of the Cello datastructures, then it'd be super easy to send and receive messages to the tiny runtime that Cello provides.