mysterialise

Mysterialise

Mysterious Serialisation of JavaScript data

Mysterialise will serialise a variety of NodeJS data types into a string to then deserialise later. This expands on the functionality of JSON.stringify as it does not handle Buffer and Date types very elegantly.

Issues with JSON Serialisation

1. JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(new Date())) becomes "2024-02-05T00:58:08.999Z" instead of Date object
2. JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(Buffer.from([16,24,36]))) becomes { type: 'Buffer', data: [ 16, 24, 36 ] } instead of Buffer object

Supported Data Types

Mysterialise supports nested objects and nested arrays, as well as the following types:

• Array
• Date
• RegExp
• Buffer
• string
• number
• boolean
• object
• null
• undefined

Usage

import { mystify, clarify } from "mysterialise";

// Some complex or simple object
const obj = [{
    bird: "parrot",
    feet: 4,
    firstSeen: new Date()
}, "cage", {
    contents: [
        1,
        {
            name: "dog",
            sound: undefined,
            video: Buffer.from([12,24,48])
        },
        null
    ]
}]

// String version of the above object
const seralised = mystify(obj);
// {"t":1,"d":[{"t":"obj...
console.log(serialised);

// Original object version of the above object
const unserialised = clarify(serialised);
// dog
console.log(unserialised[2].contents[1].name);

Install

npm i mysterialise