A performant MessagePack implementation for Matlab and Octave

The code is written in pure Matlab, and has no dependencies beyond Matlab itself. And it works in recent versions of Octave, too. The files in this repository are taken from Transplant. Parsemsgpack was adapted in order to improve performance and support also different ways of dealing with arrays and maps (usage may also boot performace even more). See the code for more information.

Basic Usage:

data = {'life, the universe, and everything', struct('the_answer', 42)};
bytes = dumpmsgpack(data)
data = parsemsgpack(bytes)
% returns: {'life, the universe, and everything', containers.Map('the_answer', 42)}

Converting Matlab to MsgPack:

Matlab	MsgPack
string	string
scalar	number
logical	true/false
vector	array of numbers
uint8 vector	bin
matrix	array of array of numbers
empty matrix	nil
cell array	array
cell matrix	array of arrays
struct	map
containers.Map	map
struct array	array of maps
handles	raise error

There is no way of encoding exts

Converting MsgPack to Matlab

MsgPack	Matlab
string	string
number	scalar
true/false	logical
nil	empty matrix
array	cell array / (array)
map	containers.Map / (struct)
bin	uint8
ext	uint8

Note that since structs don't support arbitrary field names, the fields will not always fully represent the serialized maps. Take a look at parsemap and replaceMsgPackKey in parsemsgpack for more information.

Tests

runtests()

License

MATLAB (R) is copyright of the Mathworks

Copyright (c) 2014 Bastian Bechtold Voluntary contributions made by Christopher Nadler (cnadler86) All rights reserved.

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