Fuel, the Smalltalk object serializer
 - [Description](#description) - [Properties](#properties) - [Installation](#installation) - [Report bugs](#report-bugs) - [More documentation](#more-documentation) # Description A general-purpose object serialization framework developed in [Pharo](https://pharo.org). Fuel is developed under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php). ##### Concrete We don't aspire to have a dialect-interchange format. This enables us to serialize special objects like contexts, block closures, exceptions, compiled methods and classes. Although there are ports to other dialects, Fuel development is Pharo-centric. ##### Flexible Depending on the context, there could be multiple ways of serializing the same object. For example, a class can be considered either a global or a regular object. In the former case, it will be encoded just its name; in the latter case, the class will be encoded in detail, with its method dictionary, etc. ##### Fast We worry about to have the best performance. We developed a complete benchmark suite to help analyse the performance with diverse sample sets, as well as compare against other serializers. Our pickling algorithm allows outstanding materialization performance, as well as very good serialization performance too. ##### Object-Oriented Design From the beginning it was a constraint to have a good object-oriented design and to do not need any special support from the VM. In addition, Fuel has a complete test suite, with a high coverage. We also worry about writing comments on classes and methods. # Projects using Fuel We would love to see your project here too ;)! - [Pharo](http://pharo.org): Fuel comes baked into Pharo - [Snapdump](https://github.com/zweidenker/snapdump): Create and manage runtime snapshots in Pharo - [Computer-World](https://github.com/seandenigris/Computer-World): Make computing objects come alive - [Resources-Live](https://github.com/seandenigris/Resources-Live): Not files, live resources! - [SimplePersistence](https://github.com/seandenigris/Simple-Persistence): Hassle free model backups - [Launchpad](https://github.com/ba-st/Launchpad): Application entry point command line handler template for Pharo # Status of automated builds ### Pharo [&logo=github)](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-14.0.yaml) [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-13.0.yaml) [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-12.0.yaml) master | 5.2.2 | 5.1.0 | 5.0.6 | 4.1.1 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.3 | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ------------- | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-11.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-11.0.yaml) | - | - | - | - | - | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-10.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-10.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-10.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-10.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-10.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-10.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-10.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-9.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-9.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-9.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-9.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-9.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-9.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-9.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-8.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-8.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-8.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-8.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-8.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-8.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-8.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-7.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-7.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-7.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-7.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-7.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-7.0.yaml) | [](https://github.com/theseion/Fuel/actions/workflows/pharo-7.0.yaml) | ### Squeak master | 5.2.2 | 5.1.0 | 5.0.6 | 4.1.1 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.3 | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ----------- | ------------ | ------------- | [![Build status: Squeak alpha](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/theseion/fuel/squeak-alpha.