Mastering Python for Networking and Security

Introduction to MessagePack

Before beginning to explain the operation of this module, it is convenient to understand the MessagePack format, which is used by the MSGRPC interface for the exchange of information between the client and server.

MessagePack is a specialized format for the serialization of information, which allows messages to be more compact in order to transmit information quickly between different machines. It works similarly to JSON; however, since the data is serialized using the MessagePack format, the number of bytes in the message is drastically reduced.

To install the msgpack library in python, just download the package from the MessagePack website and run the setup.py script with the install argument. We can also perform ...