A tasty serialization library, C++20 required
The aim of cronch is to provide a less painful way of serializing and deserializing C++ types. It does not use reflection, so you still have to provide names for fields and such but the idea is you should only have to provide this information once. Instead of 2n times for each format you need.
cronch is designed to be an interface layer of sorts and delegate the actual parsing and formatting of bytes to specialised libraries. To this end, its main goal is simply to take in the information about your types in as pain-free way as possible and expose it in a way that is easy to consume.
cronch is currently in early development and not particularly stable. It should be usable but beware there may be API changes and (hopefully occasional) bugs. It should not be used in production environments, nuclear reactors, around small children, etc
You can find full documentation here. It is a work-in-progress (like the rest of this library) but it provides some examples and a basic "quick start" section.
Rather than use traditional inheritance based dependency injection and interface definition, cronch relies on templates and concepts.
cronch is header-only and very template heavy. You have been warned. Having said that, it also makes use of C++20 features such as concepts, which reduce the horrible error messages and the burden on the compiler from SFINAE.
- boost >=1.75.0 (maybe earlier, but those are untested)
- JSON: nlomann/json
- XML: pugixml
There is a conanfile.txt in the ci directory. It is setup so that the library may be built (minus the benchmarks) as long as CMAKE_MODULE_PATH contains the directory in which you ran conan install. There are also profiles there for gcc 11 and msvc 16.
The CI currently builds against gcc 11 on ubuntu and msvc 16. Mac is not supported at least until clang 13 drops.