I've been using msgpack for a while, unfortunately I've just discovered it doesn't support serializing circular references (http://jira.msgpack.org/browse/MSGPACK-81), e.g.:

import msgpack;

class Foo
{
    int x;
    Bar obj;
}

class Bar
{
    int x;
    Foo obj;
}

void main()
{
    auto foo = new Foo();
    auto bar = new Bar();
    foo.obj = bar;
    bar.obj = foo;
    ubyte[] data = msgpack.pack(foo);
}

Orange doesn't work with circular references either. Is there any other serialization library that supports this scenario? I'm looking for something fast, and binary format is ok, I don't need a user-readable format.

On 2012-11-10 13:42, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

> Orange doesn't work with circular references either. Is there any
> other serialization library that supports this scenario? I'm looking
> for something fast, and binary format is ok, I don't need a
> user-readable format.

If Orange doesn't work with circular references it's a bug, please file an issue:

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orange

Although Orange is probably not very fast and it currently only has an XML archive.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 11/10/12, Jacob Carlborg <doob@me.com> wrote:
> Although Orange is probably not very fast and it currently only has an XML archive.

Heh yeah I'm actually reading XML into classes and then want to serialize this for faster access when re-running the app, so it probably wouldn't be a good idea to serialize back to XML.