TreeLang

:smile: Let's welcome new serialisation format. The only role of the format is to hold the structure without data and types.

If you think graph, there are no arrays there there are only nodes and connections.

Deserialisation is up to you also

Why?

World is moving towards graph sourced systems.

Example

So assume we have a file model.treelang with the following contnent:

Structure

{
    Pizzas{
        Margerita{
            price{
                8
            }
        }
        Capriciosa{
            price{
                10
            }
        }
    }
    Ingredients{
        Tomatoe{
            price{
                2
            }
        }
        Dough{
            price{
                5
            }
        }
        Cheese{
            price{
                3
            }
        }
        Ham{
            price{
                3
            }
        }
    }
}

That's 34 bytes

Deserialization

So this graph code could be deserialized as using pseudocode

code = Treelang.parse("model.treelang")(`
    Pizzas
`)

{
  "Pizzas": {
    "Margheita": {
      //...Margherita content
    },
    "Capriciosa": {
      // ...Capriciosa content
    }
  }
}

To define the same structure in json it takes 59 bytes. Of course you can deserialise it in other way this is just an example.

As we can see the size of that .graph file differs from .json file and its only 67% of size

Real world usage - Tests

Webpage{
    Pages{
        Home{
            menuButton
            heading1
            heading2
            testimonials{
                Jerry
                John
                Patricia
            }
        }
        About{
            menuButton
            Team{
                Jennifer
                Eve
                Tom
                Robert
            }
        }
        Contact{
            menuButton
            form{
                email
                message
                send
            }
        }
    }
}

Now using some testing framework I can bind exact string values to my elements and click them without writting this creepy structure:

{
  "Webpage": {
    "Pages": {
      "Home": {
        "menuButton": "menuButton",
        "heading1": "heading1",
        "heading2": "heading2",
        "testimonials": {
          "Jerry": "Jerry",
          "John": "John",
          "Patricia": "Patricia"
        }
      },
      "About": {
        "menuButton": "menuButton",
        "Team": {
          "Jennifer": "Jennifer",
          "Eve": "Eve",
          "Tom": "Tom",
          "Robert": "Robert"
        }
      },
      "Contact": {
        "menuButton": "menuButton",
        "form": {
          "email": "email",
          "message": "message",
          "send": "send"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Import files

index.treelang

Webpage{
    Main{
        *menu
    }
}

menu.treelang

about
home

Import index

index.treelang

Webpage{
    Main{
        *menu
    }
}

menu/index.treelang

about
home
*burger

menu/burger.treelang

cars
planes
motorcycles