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Allow tables to be mapped to native types directly. For example, a table
representing a vector3 (eg. table Vec3 { x:float; y:float; z:float; }) can
be mapped to a "mathfu::vec3" native type in NativeTables. This requires
users to provide Pack and UnPack functions that convert between the
Table and native types. This is done by adding the "native_type" attribute
to the table definition.
To support user-defined flatbuffers::Pack and flatbuffers::UnPack functions,
support a "native_include" markup that will generate a corresponding
Also add an UnPackTo function which allows users to pass in a pointer to
a NativeTable object into which to UnPack the Table. The existing UnPack
function is now simply:
NativeTable* UnPack() {
NativeTable* obj = new NativeTable();
Table::UnPackTo(obj);
return obj;
}
Finally, allow native types to be given a default value as well which are
set in the NativeTable constructor. This is done by providing a
"native_default" attribute to the member of a table.
Change-Id: Ic45cb48b0e6d7cfa5734b24819e54aa96d847cfd
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.