MyLife Open Source Software: Atdgen

Atdgen is a command-line program that takes as input type definitions in the ATD syntax and produces OCaml code suitable for data serialization and deserialization.

Two data formats are currently supported for serialization, these are JSON and Biniou, a binary format which retains most of JSON's properties. Atdgen can also generate data validators derived from annotated type definitions (starting with Atdgen 1.2.0).

Atdgen was designed with efficiency and durability in mind. Software authors are encouraged to use Atdgen directly and to write tools that may reuse part of Atdgen's source code.

Atdgen was implemented at MyLife by Martin Jambon. We distribute the source code under the terms of a BSD license.