libraries

Libraries

CompactData Libraries typically follow conventions set by JSON libraries so should be familiar to developers that have worked with JSON. For beginners, we'd recommend taking a look at the example implementations for your language of choice.

JavaScript

• Available as an npm module require("@numtechnology/compactdata").
• parse converts a CompactData string to a JavaScript Object.
• stringify converts a JavaScript object to a CompactData string.
• Example implementations available for:
  • CompactData using Plain Old JavaScript.
  • CompactData using Node.
• Source code for compactdata-ts available on GitHub

Ruby

• Available as a RubyGem named compactdata.
• parse converts a CompactData string to a Ruby object.
• generate converts a Ruby object to a CompactData string.
• Example implementation available for CompactData using Ruby.
• Source code for compactdata-ruby available on GitHub

Python

• Available as a PyPI package named compactdata.
• loads converts a CompactData string to a Python object.
• dumps converts a Python object to a CompactData string.
• Example implementation available for CompactData using Python.
• Source code for compactdata-python available on GitHub

Create one

We welcome contributions from the open source community. Anyone can build a parser based on the specification. If you do build a CompactData library, please add it to this repository by making a Pull Request.

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