serialize - A brainless Lua table serializer

serialize provides two functions:

• pack() packs Lua tables to string.
• unpack() unpacks a string back to a Lua table.

The implementation strives to be useful under the majority of reasonable use cases, to be compact, understandable and sufficiently fast. There is no pretense of complete generality, nor of absolute efficiency. In case serialize does not meet exactly your requirements, the code should be immediate enough to tweak to your needs.

Documentation

Code is documented with LDoc.

Documentation may be generated running the command:

ldoc init.lua

Test suite

The test suite uses busted.

Tests may be run with the command:

lua spec/serialize_spec.lua

License

See LICENSE for details.