ffi: Add support to serialize msgpack array/map into a JSON string. #465
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Description
In the next IR stream format, we use
msgpack
to represent a structured log event before CLP IR serialization. To handle the arrays inside the structured log event, we store them as unstructured arrays represented by a JSON string (same asclp-s
). This requires methods to turn a msgpack object into JSON string. There are two existing ways to do this:nlohmann JSON
library provides this feature by turning the msgpack bytes into an in-memory JSON object and then dumping the object into a raw string. However, from our experimental benchmark, this introduces significant run time overhead. It's more efficient to directly turn amsgpack
in-memory objects into JSON string.<<
operator on an in-memorymsgpack
object will also return a JSON string: [https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/wiki/v_2_0_cpp_json].This PR adds methods to support serialization from
msgpack
array/map to JSON string without turning it into other intermediate representations. Even thoughmsgpack-c
already has support on JSON serialization, a microbenchmark shows that our implementation is 3 times faster than using<<
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