marshal

The purpose of this shard is to provide easy-to-use marshaling of crystal objects without any work needed on the part of the programmer. There are no modules to include, simply require "marshal" and you can use obj.marshal_pack on any object to pack it into bytes and Klass.marshal_unpack(bytes) to unpack any object that was packed using the library.

Marshal goes to great lengths to try to work out of the box for most types, but some types will cause it to fail. It is recommended that you write specs similar to those in the marshal_spec.cr file for whatever types you plan to use before using this.

The shard is under development though the core API will never change. This is not production stable but with a few specs you can have confidence it will work in your particular scenario.

This is basically messagepack for the lazy.