Change communication format from json to X

[Idrinth]

I'm wondering if changing the comunication format should be changed from json to something else to make the transfer quicker.
I thought about (binary) Thrift since it does technically support both php and javascript even if the javascript implementation is not currently in the apache repository.

Any other ideas?

[w20k]

What's the main reason would be in chaning format?

[Idrinth]

size of the data and the result of unserializing the data.
If you have a look at a few of our jsons they are huge, so this could help reduce size a lot.

This is mostly meant to prepare for the next war, we got around 6KB for the raid search requests at the moment, I'd expect around 20KB during wars and not just once like it's now but every couple seconds.

[w20k]

Got your point :)

Binary would be good, but I'm not sure how easy it's parsed from JS side.
Message Pack could be an option:
http://msgpack.org/index.html

[Idrinth]

There is an existing and supported library for javascript https://github.com/gossiperl/thrift-js-binary-protocol, it was just incompatible with the tests run, so...
msgpack also looks like something we could test