Serialize and synchronize data structures over network in C

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Is there a C library that serializes and/or synchronizes data structures on two distinct nodes. It would be ideal if synchronizing is not intertwined with serialization. To summarize, what i want would be distributed synchronization of data structures (trees, structs, etc) in a transparent manner.

The closest i came to an answer is Client-server synchronization pattern / algorithm?, but no links were provided.

Update: libopensync seems promising (can synchronize arbitary data ), AFAIK if the plugin is not a server type (dosent read socket directly .. marshalling Transport layer is taken care of by the library) else AFAIK we have to provide it (you could use AMQP, beanstalkd, zeromq,etc) along with google protocol buffer,etc libopensync — qwrty
– qwrty, Commented Aug 2, 2011 at 10:21

Philip Wernersbach · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-22 04:16:00Z

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As far as I know, there is no pre-made data synchronization library for C/C++.

You could use MessagePack, and add a last_updated timestamp field to your structure. Then you could use MessagePack to compare timestamps and transfer data between nodes.

MessagePack even provides a helpful Quick Start tutorial at http://wiki.msgpack.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1081387.

answered May 22, 2011 at 4:16

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qwrty Over a year ago

Uodate: See my comment for a possible solution

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