Data Transport through gob
Explore how to use Go's gob package for serializing and deserializing binary data efficiently within Go environments. Understand the differences between gob and text formats like JSON, and learn practical encoding and decoding techniques for transmitting structured data safely and effectively.
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What is gob?
The gob is Go’s format for serializing and deserializing program data in binary format. It is found in the encoding package. Data in this format is called a gob (short for Go binary format). It is similar to Python’s pickle or Java’s Serialization. It is typically used in transporting arguments and results of remote procedure calls (RPCs) (see the rpc package Chapter 13). More generally, it used for data transport between applications ...
