# smile-format-specification

**Repository Path**: mirrors_dsmiley/smile-format-specification

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: smile-format-specification
- **Description**: New home for Smile format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_(data_interchange_format))
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSD-2-Clause
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-24
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-01

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## README

# Smile Data Format

"Smile" is a binary data format that defines a binary equivalent of standard
[JSON](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON) data format.

Format was specified in 2010 by [Jackson](../../../jackson) JSON processor development team.
First compliant implementation was included Jackson version 1.6, released in September 2010.

##  Specification

Design documentation includes:

* [Smile Format Specification](smile-specification.md)  describes format itself; how it works and what a compliant parser/generator implementations needs to do.
* [Smile Format Design Goals](smile-design-goals.md) explains rationale for design decisions concerning specification.

## Community

* [Smile format Google group](http://groups.google.com/group/smile-format-discussion)

## Documentation

* [SmileFAQ](smile-faw.md)

## Implementations

Smile Codecs

* Java
    * [Jackson](../../../jackson) provides Smile support through [jackson-dataformat-smile](../../../jackson-dataformats-binary) modules) format codec
        * Full support: including streaming access, data binding and tree model (100% parity with textual JSON)
    * [Protostuff](http://github.com/protostuff/protostuff) project supports Smile both as a low-level data format, and as format used for its RPC implementation
* JVM, other:
    * [Clojure](http://clojure.org) 
        * [Cheshire](https://github.com/dakrone/cheshire) library offers support via Jackson `jackson-dataformat-smile`
* C
    * [libsmile](https://github.com/brianm/libsmile) is a small C-library for reading and writing Smile data.
* Javascript
    * [smile-js](https://github.com/ngyewch/smile-js) Smile decoder written in Javascript
* Python
    * [PySmile](https://github.com/jhosmer/PySmile) Python codec

Frameworks, Systems that use Smile codec (encoder and decoder)

* [Elastic Search](http://www.elastic.co) uses Smile as transport format supports access using Smile encoding.