Data Serialization In C++ Using Flatbuffers

Data Serialization In C++ Using Flatbuffers
Published 3/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English

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| Duration: 1h 25m
Learn how to save data or send it over the network in the most efficient way and as an alternative to gRPC's ProtoBuf

What you'll learn

How to use serialize data

How to create FlatBuffers

The difference between Binary and JSON files

Writing efficient modern C++ code

The FlatBuffers schema language in detail

Requirements

Basic C++ knowledge

Basic understanding of OOP

Description

WelcomeIn this bite-sized course you will learn what data serialization is and how to do it properly. Data serialization is an important topic for anyone - from web developers sending data over the network to desktop applications and games where you might want to save settings or game saves onto the disk and then read them fast later.In any of the above cases you would like to have a fast method of preparing data for being sent and also read back on the other side. So I will introduce binary serialization and its benefits compared to the more widespread JSON or XML alternatives.FlatBuffersThis library is developed by Google and is a really efficient mechanism for serializing data. It is one of the two libraries available that are really poplular and the second one is also developed by Google and is called ProtoBuf which is used mostly for their other technology called gRPC. The FlatBuffers library is more lightweight and versiltile though and you can use it for so much more than ProtoBuf.I will be teaching the FlatBuffers schema language for the most of this course. But a lot of the ideas taken from FlatBuffers are also aplicable to ProtoBuf and gRPC communication. You will also be able to compile flatbuffers for other languages as well and not just for C++ - so you can have a C++ server and an EcmaScript client for example.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Promo

Lecture 2 Welcome

Lecture 3 FAQ

Lecture 4 Course Overview

Section 2: Setup

Lecture 5 Software Used

Lecture 6 Installing Visual Studio

Lecture 7 Installing CMake

Lecture 8 Installing Ninja

Lecture 9 Installing Git

Section 3: Project Setup

Lecture 10 Hello, World!

Lecture 11 Coding Standards

Lecture 12 Dual Project Setup

Section 4: Serialization

Lecture 13 What is Data Serialization?

Lecture 14 Simple Binary Serialization

Lecture 15 Problems with Custom Serialization

Section 5: FlatBuffers

Lecture 16 Hello, Buffers!

Lecture 17 FlatBuffers Dependency

Lecture 18 FlatBuffers & CMake

Lecture 19 Saving Buffer Data

Lecture 20 Reading Buffer Data

Lecture 21 Root Type

Lecture 22 Enums

Lecture 23 Structs vs Tables

Lecture 24 Arrays

Lecture 25 Optionals

Lecture 26 Homework: Optionals

Lecture 27 Unions

Lecture 28 Object API

Lecture 29 Serialize to JSON

Lecture 30 Deserialize from JSON

Lecture 31 Schema Updates

Section 6: What now?

Lecture 32 Bonus Materials

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