jsot

A tiny helper for shipping generic data in a short string.

What is this?

The crate lets you encode any serde_json::Value into a compact text payload and decode it back.

The string is prefixed with a Transport ID to allow for future compression alternatives.

Quick start

Add to Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
jsot = "0.1"
serde_json = "1"

Encoding

use jsot::encode;
use serde_json::json;

let value = json!({ "hello": "world" });
let blob = encode(value)?;
assert_eq!("2eyJoZWxsbyI6IndvcmxkIn0=", blob);

Decoding

use jsot::decode;

let blob = "2eyJoZWxsbyI6IndvcmxkIn0=";
let value = decode(blob.as_bytes())?;
assert_eq!(json!({ "hello": "world" }), value);

Format specification

The data format consists of a transport ID byte, followed by Base64 data.

All other IDs are reserved for future considerations.

JSON data is encoded as JSON -> Compression (e.g. Zstd) -> Base64.

License

Dual-licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

Contributing

• Heads-up: this repository is published for reference only.
• We are not accepting pull requests, issues, or feature requests at this time.

Why is the code public?

• To document the wire / file format in a runnable, audited form.
• To make it easy for other teams to port the encoder/decoder to their own language or stack.