Serialization and Deserialization in Rust

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

msgpacker

msgpack-rust

Protobuf¶

https://crates.io/crates/protobuf

https://crates.io/crates/prost

serde Based Serialization and Deserialization¶

serde¶

serde is a generic serialization/deserialization framework .

serde_with¶

serde_with provides custom de/serialization helpers to use in combination with serde’s with-annotation and with the improved serde_as-annotation.

serde_yaml¶

serde_yaml is a YAML data format for Serde .

serde-big-array¶

serde-big-array Big array helper for serde. The purpose of this crate is to make (de-)serializing arrays of sizes > 32 easy. This solution is needed until serde adopts const generics support.

serde_stacker¶

serde_stacker is a serde adapter that avoids stack overflow by dynamically growing the stack .

basic-toml¶

basic-toml is a library for parsing and producing data in TOML format using Serde.

ciborium¶

Ciborium contains CBOR serialization and deserialization implementations for serde.

minicbor¶

minicbor is a small CBOR codec suitable for no_std environments.

bincode is a compact encoder / decoder pair that uses a binary zero-fluff encoding scheme. The size of the encoded object will be the same or smaller than the size that the object takes up in memory in a running Rust program.

serde-repr¶

nanoserde¶

goblin¶

speedy¶

borsh-rs¶

rust-ini¶

xml-rs¶

Other Crates¶

Strictly speaking, the following crates are not serialization/deserialization crates. There are more like binary encoding/decoding crates. However, they can be very useful when you work with primitive types in Rust.