Binary Serialization

@derive(Serialize, Deserialize)

Auto-generate binary serialization for classes:

@derive(Serialize, Deserialize)
class GameState {
    var level: Int
    var score: Int
    var playerName: String
}

This generates serialize() and deserialize() methods that encode/decode the class fields to/from binary format.

Low-level binary buffer API:

import core.binary

Function	Signature	Description
`newBinaryBuffer`	`(capacity: Int) r: Int`	Create buffer (returns handle)
`binaryBufferLength`	`(handle: Int) r: Int`	Get buffer length

let buf = newBinaryBuffer(1024)
__BinaryWriteI64(buf, 42)
__BinaryWriteF64(buf, 3.14)
let len = binaryBufferLength(buf)
println("Buffer size: {len}")

Run-length encoding for binary data:

import core.compress

Function	Signature	Description
`compressRLE`	`(src: Int, srcLen: Int, dst: Int, dstCap: Int) r: Int`	Compress data
`decompressRLE`	`(src: Int, srcLen: Int, dst: Int, dstCap: Int) r: Int`	Decompress data

Returns the output length, or -1 on error.

Network packet utilities:

import core.packet

Function	Signature	Description
`packetHeaderId`	`(header: Int) r: Int`	Extract packet ID from header
`packetHeaderLength`	`(header: Int) r: Int`	Extract payload length from header

For network protocol types:

@packet(id = 1)
class LoginRequest {
    var username: String
    var password: String
}

Mark a class for binary layout:

@binary
class RawData {
    var header: Int
    var payload_size: Int
    var checksum: Int
}