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Nerdbank.MessagePack 1.2.4

Nerdbank.MessagePack

A modern, fast and NativeAOT-compatible MessagePack serialization library

This is a fast and more user-friendly MessagePack serialization library for .NET and .NET Framework. This package is brought to you by one of the two major contributors to MessagePack-CSharp. As its natural successor, this library comes packed with features that its predecessor lacks, and has ongoing support.

Features

• Serializes in the compact and fast MessagePack format.
• Performance is on par with the highly tuned and popular MessagePack-CSharp library.
• Automatically serialize any type annotated with the PolyType [GenerateShape] attribute or non-annotated types by adding a 'witness' type with a similar annotation.
• Fast ref-based serialization and deserialization minimizes copying of large structs.
• NativeAOT and trimming compatible.
• Serialize only properties that have non-default values (optionally).
• Keep memory pressure low by using async serialization directly to/from I/O like a network, IPC pipe or file.
• Streaming deserialization for large or over-time sequences.
• Primitive msgpack reader and writer APIs for low-level scenarios.
• Author custom converters for advanced scenarios.
• Security mitigations for stack overflows.
• Optionally serialize your custom types as arrays of values instead of maps of names and value for more compact representation and even higher performance.
• Support for serializing instances of certain types derived from the declared type and deserializing them back to their original runtime types using unions.
• Optionally preserve reference equality across serialization/deserialization.
• Structural (i.e. deep, by-value) equality checking for arbitrary types, both with and without collision resistant hash functions.

See how these features and more compare with the leading MessagePack library.