Marshal

[blacktop]

Would it be possible to add Marshal/Unmarshal functions? I'm creating very large tries and it burns my lap to generate them 🔥 I'd like to save them to disk so I don't have to regen again.

Would that be possible?

[blacktop]

I tried to gob and got gob: type radix.Tree has no exported fields

[rfyiamcool]

@backspace +1

[i0x71]

Would be very nice to have this.

[banks]

My slight hesitation is that gob is not the format most projects would need if they wanted to encode to disk or network since it's not cross-platform. Encoding to GOB then decoding to something else and re-encoding to JSON or protobuf seems painful.

An alternative would be to add a ToMap function or similar that copies the tree into a map[[]byte]interface{}. and returns that to be encoded however the caller wishes.

But in reality that method would just be a simple iteration over the tree and assignment into a map - something the caller could do with a few lines of code anyway and probably more efficiently as they might not need interim map copy.

So I'd be inclined to follow the Go convention of not including code that is trivial to write in low-level libs.

What do you all think? Would having an example in the README of how to encode to Gob be a reasonable alternative?

[blacktop]

I think that'd be great!