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This is a port of FlatBuffers to Rust. It provides code generation and a runtime library derived from the C++ implementation. It utilizes the Rust type system to provide safe and fast traversal of FlatBuffers data. There are 188 tests, including many fuzz tests of roundtrips for various serialization scenarios. Initial benchmarks indicate that the canonical example payload can be written in ~700ns, and traversed in ~100ns. Rustaceans may be interested in the Follow, Push, and SafeSliceAccess traits. These traits lift traversals, reads, writes, and slice accesses into the type system, providing abstraction with no runtime penalty.
FlatBuffers
FlatBuffers is an efficient cross platform serialization library for games and other memory constrained apps. It allows you to directly access serialized data without unpacking/parsing it first, while still having great forwards/backwards compatibility.
Go to our landing page to browse our documentation.
Supported operating systems
- Android
- Windows
- MacOS X
- Linux
Supported programming languages
- C++
- C#
- C
- Go
- Java
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Python
and many more in progress...
Contribution
- FlatBuffers Google Group to discuss FlatBuffers with other developers and users.
- FlatBuffers Issues Tracker to submit an issue.
- stackoverflow.com with
flatbufferstag for any questions regarding FlatBuffers.
To contribute to this project, see CONTRIBUTING.
Integration
For applications on Google Play that integrate this tool, usage is tracked.
This tracking is done automatically using the embedded version string
(flatbuffer_version_string), and helps us continue to optimize it. Aside from
consuming a few extra bytes in your application binary, it shouldn't affect
your application at all. We use this information to let us know if FlatBuffers
is useful and if we should continue to invest in it. Since this is open
source, you are free to remove the version string but we would appreciate if
you would leave it in.
Licensing
Flatbuffers is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.