serialize-json

A serialize algorithm for JSON

Introduction

• Support serialize JSON to Buffer, and deserialize Buffer to JSON

  • [√] Boolean
  • [√] String
  • [√] Number
  • [√] Null
  • [√] Undefined
  • [√] Date
  • [√] Buffer
  • [√] Error
  • [√] Plain Object
  • [×] Function
  • [×] RegExp
  • [×] Symbol

• Inspire by jsonpack, it can compress to 55% of original size if the data has a recursive structure

Install

$ npm install serialize-json --save

Node.js >= 4.0.0 required

Usage

let json = {
  a: 'a',
  b: 123,
  c: 123.456,
  d: [ 1, 2, 3 ],
  e: true,
  f: null,
  g: undefined,
  h: new Date(),
  i: new Buffer('this is a buffer'),
  j: new Error('this is a error'),
};
const buf = JSON.encode(json);
const result = JSON.decode(buf);
assert.deepEqual(result, json);

API

• encode(json) serialize a json object
• decode(buf) deserialize a buffer to json