formats

Convert MessagePack data into Nu values.

Signature

> from msgpack {flags}

Flags

• --objects: Read multiple objects from input

Input/output types:

input	output
binary	any

Examples

Read a list of values from MessagePack

> 0x[93A3666F6F2AC2] | from msgpack
╭───┬───────╮
│ 0 │ foo   │
│ 1 │    42 │
│ 2 │ false │
╰───┴───────╯

Read a stream of multiple values from MessagePack

> 0x[81A76E757368656C6CA5726F636B73A9736572696F75736C79] | from msgpack --objects
╭───┬─────────────────────╮
│ 0 │ ╭─────────┬───────╮ │
│   │ │ nushell │ rocks │ │
│   │ ╰─────────┴───────╯ │
│ 1 │ seriously           │
╰───┴─────────────────────╯

Read a table from MessagePack

> 0x[9282AA6576656E745F6E616D65B141706F6C6C6F203131204C616E64696E67A474696D65C70CFF00000000FFFFFFFFFF2CAB5B82AA6576656E745F6E616D65B44E757368656C6C20666972737420636F6D6D6974A474696D65D6FF5CD5ADE0] | from msgpack
╭───┬──────────────────────┬──────────────╮
│ # │      event_name      │     time     │
├───┼──────────────────────┼──────────────┤
│ 0 │ Apollo 11 Landing    │ 55 years ago │
│ 1 │ Nushell first commit │ 5 years ago  │
╰───┴──────────────────────┴──────────────╯

Notes

Not all values are representable as MessagePack.

The datetime extension type is read as dates. MessagePack binary values are read to their Nu equivalent. Most other types are read in an analogous way to from json, and may not convert to the exact same type if to msgpack was used originally to create the data.

MessagePack: https://msgpack.org/