Courier is a modern data interchange system for web + mobile stacks that combines an expressive schema language with language idiomatic data binding generators.
Why Courier?
Courier is the only comprehensive, schema based data system centered around JSON. Binary protocols, such as Protobuf and Thrift have proven that data schemas are an excellent way to share the structure of data messaged between multiple systems and programming languages. For JSON, however, there are few systems that take a schema driven approach and none that provide satisfactory type systems. Courier's solves this problem, providing a type safe, schema driven way of sharing JSON data between backends, web and mobile.
record Fortune {
message: String
createdAt: DateTime
}
{
"message": "Today's your lucky day!",
"createdAt": "2016-02-08T16:22:33Z"
}
val fortune = Fortune(
message = "Today's your lucky day!",
createdAt = DateTime.now())
let fortune = Fortune(
message: "Today's your lucky day!",
createdAt:
NSDate(timeIntervalSinceNow: 0))
Build for JSON.. and Binary
Courier serializes to natural looking JSON but also supports multiple binary data protocols including Avro, PSON and BSON.
Modern Schema language
Courier is a concise but comprehensive schema language, based on Pegasus and Avro, and with language features from Scala, Swift, and Avro IDL.
Language interoperability
Full support for Scala, Java, Swift and Javascript
Courier schemas enable languages to easily share the structure of the data they read and write, and Courier's data binding code generators eliminate the tedious and error prone process of manually writing serializers.
Full IDE Support
Courier has a full featured IntelliJ plugin that includes syntax highlighting, syntax error indication, code formatting, auto-import and auto-complete.
Idiomatic Data Bindings
Courier generates language idiomatic data bindings that look and feel natural to developers.
For instance, the Scala generator produces code with case classes,
Options, default parameters, pattern matching, sealed traits
and Scala collections.
Fast and stable
Courier is built on Pegasus, an efficient JVM data system that is in large scale production use at Linkedin and Coursera.