Ecosystem

globsframework

The data model: GlobType, Field, Glob, MutableGlob, annotations, constraints, and the visitor API. Everything else depends on this.

Dependencies: slf4j-api only

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globs-gson

JSON serialization and deserialization using Google Gson. Encode any Glob to JSON and decode JSON back to a Glob — with full support for nested GlobField, arrays, and sparse fields.

Dependencies: gson

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globs-xml

XML serialization built on top of saxstack, a lightweight SAX-based parser. Reads and writes XML without DOM.

Dependencies: saxstack

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globs-bin-serialisation

A compact binary encoder using a TLV (Type–Length–Value) format, similar in spirit to Protocol Buffers — without the code generator. Fields are identified by their index in the GlobType.

Dependencies: none

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globs-csv

Read and write CSV (and similar delimiter-separated formats) using Apache Commons CSV. Column names are matched to StringField / DoubleField / etc. automatically.

Dependencies: commons-csv

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globs-db

SQL access via JDBC. Create tables from a GlobType, run type-safe insert / update / delete / select queries, stream results as Globs. Works with any JDBC driver.

Dependencies: JDBC driver of your choice

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globs-http

HTTP server and client adapter backed by Apache HTTP Components. URL parameters, query parameters, request bodies, and headers are all modeled as Globs. Automatically generates an OpenAPI JSON from your type definitions.

Dependencies: httpcomponents-core 5

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globs-graphql

GraphQL API implementation. Resolvers receive and return Globs; the schema is derived from GlobType definitions. Uses ANTLR with the official GraphQL grammar — no heavy graphql-java dependency for execution.

Dependencies: antlr4-runtime

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globs-grpc

gRPC integration. Maps Protobuf messages to and from Globs so that gRPC services can be implemented using the same model as the rest of the application.

Dependencies: none

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globs-etcd

Service discovery and distributed configuration using etcd. Key-value entries are stored and retrieved as Globs, making cluster configuration type-safe.

Dependencies: jetcd

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globs-nats

Messaging with NATS. Publish and subscribe to Glob-encoded messages over NATS subjects, with automatic serialization/deserialization.

Dependencies: nats.java

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globs-commandline

Parse command-line arguments into a Glob. Define your CLI flags as a GlobType; the parser fills in a MutableGlob from argv. Automatic --help text is generated from annotations.

Dependencies: none

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globs-generate experimental

Generates optimized Glob instances for a given GlobType using ASM bytecode generation. Instead of the generic map-based implementation, each type gets a dedicated class with native primitive storage (no boxing for int, long, double), plus low-level zero-copy accessors (GlobGetIntAccessor, GlobSetDoubleAccessor, …) for high-throughput use cases. Activated via a system property — no API change needed.

Dependencies: asm

Work in progress — not yet used in production.

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globs-view

Data aggregation and reporting. Define breakdowns and outputs over Globs — similar to pivot tables — to produce summary views from a stream of Globs.

Dependencies: none

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globs-shared (off-heap)

High-performance off-heap storage for Globs using Java's Foreign Memory API (Java 22+). Stores large datasets outside the JVM heap to reduce GC pressure, with unique and non-unique indexed lookups and disk persistence.

Dependencies: Java 22+  ·  Maven: globs-ffm

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globs-fix experimental

FIX (Financial Information eXchange) protocol support. Encode and decode FIX messages as Globs, bringing the same generic pipeline to financial messaging.

Dependencies: none

Work in progress — not yet used in production.