454 B
454 B
Simple serialization - an alternative to RLP that's much simpler.
The spec:
encode(string) = enc3b(len(string)) + string
Where enc3b(x) encodes x as three bytes, in big-endian format
encode(list) = enc3b(8388608 + sum(len([encode(x) for x in list]))) + \
b''.join([encode(x) for x in list])
And that's it!
Examples:
cow -> \x00\x00\x03cow
[dog, horse] -> \x80\x00\x0e\x00\x00\x03dog\x00\x00\x05horse