Gob

We have already looked at gob in the previous chapter but as a quick re-cap, the gob format was specifically designed to facilitate Go to Go-based communication and was structured around the idea of something easier to use and possibly more efficient than the likes of protocol buffers, this comes at a cost of cross-language communication.

gob object definition:

type HelloWorldRequest struct {
  Name string
}

More information about gob can be found in the Go documentation at https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/gob/