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- Facebook Thrift
- Google Protocol Buffers
The drawback of these binary formats is, unlike PSYC, JSON and XML
you can't edit them manually and you can't produce valid messages
by replacing variables in a simple text template. You depend on
specialized parsers and renderers to be provided.
The drawback of these binary formats is that you cannot edit
them manually and you can't produce valid messages
by replacing variables in a simple text template.
You depend on specialized parsers and renderers to be provided.
At least some of these binary formats are self-typed like JSON
and do not need to be compiled specifically for the application,
but even BSON and CBOR share JSON's lack of actual protocol semantics
which invites unexperienced developers to design protocols which
will be harder to extend and adapt while maintaining backward
compatibility.
There's also
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This format is formally text-based, but not easy to read as it doesn't
have any visual separators and isn't easy to edit as everything is
prefixed by lengths even for very short items.
prefixed by lengths even for very short items. It is therefore also
not templateable.
* Further Reading