cbor

Package cbor is a Go library for encoding and decoding CBOR (Concise Binary Object Representation) data. This package implements CBOR as described in RFC 7049.

Status: WIP, not ready for consumption.

TODO (or decide not to do)

• Tag for encoding empty strings as nulls
• Option to turn off unicode validity checking for strings for dat speed
• Option to allow (a/all) lists to be encoded with indefinite length (or some streaming API)
• A lower-level API to help people write arbitrary CBOR messages (or at least help them when writing their own Marshaler/Unmarshaler implementations).
• Channel, complex, and function values cannot be marshaled by encoding/json, and I'm following suit here. We might be able to put complex numbers into a byte string with a tag or something (but it's not a predefined tag, so maybe don't bother).
• Handle anonymous struct fields the same way encoding/json does. Skipping this for now because it rachets up the complexity significantly.
• Better test case coverage for error cases in the encoder.
• encoding/json.Unmarshal will allow for type errors as it decodes and still give the user a best-effort decoded value as well as the error. Is this worth doing?
• json.{En,De}coder equivalents.