Leopard

Leopard is the fastest serializer for Lua 5.1.

Features

• Function support.
• Automatically escapes strings.
• Simple and easy use.
• Custom config support.
• Human readable output.
• Table compression.

Peformance

Test can be found in tests/test.lua.

• leopard (10000): 0.72s
• serpent (10000): 1.646s
• Rochet2 (10000): 3.775s

API

Serialize

This function serializes table tbl and returns a string.

<string>Serialize(<tabletbl>);

Serialize Compress

This function serializes and compresses table tbl and returns a string.

<string>SerializeCompress(<tabletbl>);

Format Arguments

This function iterates through the passed arguments, formatting each value, then returns each value joined by , .

<string>FormatArguments(<...any>);

Format String

This function formats string str.

<string>FormatString(<stringstr>);

Update Config

This function allows you to edit the configuration used by the serializer

<void>UpdateConfig(<table { spaces=4 }>);

Usage Example

localSerializer=require("leopard");
localfunctiontest(a, b, ...)
print(a,b, ...);
end;
localTarget= {
1,
true,
test,
"Hello World \7"
}
localOutput=Serializer.Serialize(Target);
print(Output);

Output

{
1,
true,
function(...) returnloadstring("\27\76\117\97\81\0\1\4\4\4\8\0\12\0\0\0\64\46\92\116\101\115\116\46\108\117\97\0\2\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\2\3\7\6\0\0\0\197\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\64\1\128\0\165\1\0\0\220\64\0\0\30\0\128\0\1\0\0\0\4\6\0\0\0\112\114\105\110\116\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\97\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\98\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\97\114\103\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")(...); end,
"Hello World \7"
}

Compression Example

localSerializer=require("leopard");
localfunctiontest(a, b, ...)
print(a,b, ...);
end;
localTarget= {
1,
true,
test,
"Hello World \7"
}
localOutput=Serializer.SerializeCompress(Target);
print(Output);

Output

{1,true,function(...) returnloadstring("\27\76\117\97\81\0\1\4\4\4\8\0\12\0\0\0\64\46\92\116\101\115\116\46\108\117\97\0\2\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\2\3\7\6\0\0\0\197\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\64\1\128\0\165\1\0\0\220\64\0\0\30\0\128\0\1\0\0\0\4\6\0\0\0\112\114\105\110\116\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\97\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\98\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\97\114\103\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\0\0\0\0")(...); end,"Hello World \7"}