JSON已得到广泛应用,在很多应用场景下,你可能想进一步地压缩JSON字符串的长度,以提升传输效率,这里向你介绍两种常用的同构压缩算法:CJSON和HPack。

CJSON压缩示例


原始JSON:


[
  { // This is a point
    "x": 100, 
    "y": 100
  }, { // This is a rectangle
    "x": 100, 
    "y": 100,
    "width": 200,
    "height": 150
  },
  {}, // an empty object
]




CJSON压缩后:


{
  "templates": [ 
    [0, "x", "y"], [1, "width", "height"] 
  ],
  "values": [ 
    { "values": [ 1,  100, 100 ] }, 
    { "values": [2, 100, 100, 200, 150 ] }, 
    {} 
  ]
}



HPack压缩示例


原始JSON:


[{
  name : "Andrea",
  age : 31,
  gender : "Male",
  skilled : true
}, {
  name : "Eva",
  age : 27,
  gender : "Female",
  skilled : true
}, {
  name : "Daniele",
  age : 26,
  gender : "Male",
  skilled : false
}]



HPack压缩后:


[["name","age","gender","skilled"],["Andrea",31,"Male",true],["Eva",27,"Female",true],["Daniele",26,"Male",false]]



我目前正在使用的是基于HPACK算法的开源项目JSONP:https://github.com/WebReflection/JSONH,数据量越大,效果越明显,应用场景也更加有意义。