Binary Data in JSON String. Something better than Base64

Question

The JSON format natively doesn\'t support binary data. The binary data has to be escaped so that it can be placed into a string element (i.e. zero or more Unicode chars in d

Answer 1

Smile format

It's very fast to encode, decode and compact

Speed comparison (java based but meaningful nevertheless): https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki/

Also it's an extension to JSON that allow you to skip base64 encoding for byte arrays

Smile encoded strings can be gzipped when space is critical