schema-messages v0.1.8

#Schema Messages

This is a JavaScript implementation of Schema Messages for modern browsers.

Schema Messages creates binary representation of structured data that can be efficiently transmitted over network. Anticipated for use in applications where identical structure messages are transmitted repeatively, e.g. in multiplayer/online games. For example sending the following message:

{
	'player_id': 42,
	'position_x': 123.45,
	'position_y': 6789.21
}

Would take 64 bytes to transfer using raw json, 52 bytes using msgpack and only 10 bytes using Schema Messages which would look something like this:

01 2A 42 F6 E6 66 45 D4 29 AE

However bear in mind that to encode/decode the message on either end, one needs a schema which would look something like this:

{
		"FrameMessage": {
				"format": {
						"position_x": "float",
						"position_y": "float",
						"player_id": "ubyte"
				 }
		 }
 }

Schemas must be pre-shared on both ends for communication to works.