06_msgpack

6. MsgPack

Specification of the message pack format can be found here: https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/spec.md

There are libraries written in the most common languages. You can download libraries from the official site: https://msgpack.org/

The following table provides information on how different types of data are encoded in the message pack.

format name	first byte (in binary)	first byte (in hex)
positive fixint	0xxxxxxx	0x00 - 0x7f
fixmap	1000xxxx	0x80 - 0x8f
fixarray	1001xxxx	0x90 - 0x9f
fixstr	101xxxxx	0xa0 - 0xbf
nil	11000000	0xc0
(never used)	11000001	0xc1
false	11000010	0xc2
true	11000011	0xc3
bin 8	11000100	0xc4
bin 16	11000101	0xc5
bin 32	11000110	0xc6
ext 8	11000111	0xc7
ext 16	11001000	0xc8
ext 32	11001001	0xc9
float 32	11001010	0xca
float 64	11001011	0xcb
uint 8	11001100	0xcc
uint 16	11001101	0xcd
uint 32	11001110	0xce
uint 64	11001111	0xcf
int 8	11010000	0xd0
int 16	11010001	0xd1
int 32	11010010	0xd2
int 64	11010011	0xd3
fixext 1	11010100	0xd4
fixext 2	11010101	0xd5
fixext 4	11010110	0xd6
fixext 8	11010111	0xd7
fixext 16	11011000	0xd8
str 8	11011001	0xd9
str 16	11011010	0xda
str 32	11011011	0xdb
array 16	11011100	0xdc
array 32	11011101	0xdd
map 16	11011110	0xde
map 32	11011111	0xdf
negative fixint	111xxxxx	0xe0 - 0xff