Generic term for parser/serializer [closed]
Decoding and encoding can be thought of as the same process, but in opposite directions. The generic word for a bidirectional encoder/decoder is “codec”:
a portmanteau of coder-decoder.
Parsing and serialization can also be thought of as the same process, but in opposite directions.
Is there an equivalent word to “codec”, but for the bidirectional process of parsing/serialization?
Though not really a word, serde (serialization + deserialization) is composed in pretty much the same manner as coder + decoder.
Several libraries use this name:
- https://pypi.org/project/serde/
- https://serde.rs/
- https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/SerDe