Packet assembly

[waywardmonkeys]

Have you considered adding the generation of an assemble method (or whatever you want to call it) where you pass in an object and the parser converts it to a buffer?

[keichi]

Yes I did think about adding binary serialization feature, however, when I first began implementig this library, just parsing was enough. If there are requests for such feature, I could start working on it.

[keichi]

It seems like there are very few modules on npm that is capable of both parsing and generating binary data to/from structured data, so more or less, there should be a demand for that kind of a module.

[waywardmonkeys]

deoxxa/dissolve has a partner module deoxxa/concentrate ... https://github.com/bigeasy/packet can do it.

[keichi]

Ah, this is exactly what I meant! Personally, that DSL-based API isn't very attractive though. What are your opinions?

[waywardmonkeys]

I don't like it much. I suspect most of the right thing can happen with the current syntax of binary-parser. One issue would be for skip, but that's something that can be solved.

[rkovacevic]

+1 would like to see this

[TronicLabs]

+1 would like to see this

[jphgross]

+1 would like to see this.

[tevaum]

+1 from me too :]

[abalmos]

👍

[fb55]

In case anyone is interested: I started working on this at fb55/binary-serializer.

[ryan-rowland]

I've gone a different way with this and begun implementing a parallel solution from the ground-up that does both serialization and parsing. https://github.com/ryan-rowland/binary-schema

I'm writing the backlog via GitHub issues if anybody is interested in contributing.

It's already on npm as binary-schema

[emcee-ai]

PR #73 aims to provide the desired functionality. Care to comment on, or lend support for that PR?