node-shaft

Who's the framed, binary networking protocol that's so simple you could implement it in just about any language?

node-shaft!

You're damn right.

Protocol Overview

Messages are sent over a reliable byte stream (e.g. TCP). The protocol is a stream of frames. All integer types are big endian. Each frame looks like this:

        |========|==========|==============================|
        | offset | type     | field                        |
        |========|==========|==============================|
        |      0 | uint16_t | message_type                 |
        |--------|----------|------------------------------|
        |      2 | uint16_t | message_length               |
        |        |          | (not including the header)   |
        |--------|----------|------------------------------|
        |      4 | byte[]   | message_payload              |
        |        |          | (arbitrary contents allowed, |
        |        |          |  length specified as         |
        |        |          |  message_length)             |
        |--------|----------|------------------------------|

Reserved Message Types

Message IDs from 0xf000 up to 0xffff are reserved for use by the protocol implementation. Consumers may send messages of any other type.

License

MIT.