External Data Representation
- External Data Representation
eXternal Data Representation (XDR) is an IETF standard from 1995 of the presentation layer in the OSI model. XDR allows data to be wrapped in an architecture independent manner so data can be transferred between heterogeneous computer systems. Converting from the local representation to XDR is called "encoding". Converting from XDR to the local representation is called "decoding". XDR is implemented as a software library of functions that is portable between different operating systems and is also independent of the transport layer.
The XDR data format is in use by many systems, including:
* Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call
* EMC's NetWorker backup software (in its newer releases)
* NetCDF (a scientific data format)
* The R language and environment for statistical computing
* High Level Architecture (simulation)
* The SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, to serialize/deserialize compiled JavaScript code
* The Ganglia distributed monitoring system
* The sFlow network monitoring standard
XDR data types
* boolean
* char (8 bit integer/character)
* int (32 bit integer)
* hyper (64 bit integer)
* float
* double
* quadruple (new in RFC1832)
* enumeration
* structure
* string
* fixed length array
* variable length array
* union
* opaque data
* Optional data. It is notated similarly to C pointers, but is represented as the data type "pointed to" with a boolean "present or not" flag.
ee also
* Structured Data eXchange Format (SDXF).
* Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) used on top of the SMTP and HTTP application protocols
External links
The XDR standard exists in three different versions in the following RFC's...
* [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4506.txt RFC 4506] 2006 This document makes no technical changes to RFC 1832 and is published for the purposes of noting IANA considerations, augmenting security considerations, and distinguishing normative from informative references..
* [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1832.txt RFC 1832] 1995 version. Added Quadruple precision floating point to RFC 1014
* [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1014.html RFC 1014] Original 1987 version.
* [http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/js/src/jsxdrapi.c jsxdrapi.c] , the main source file of SpiderMonkey that uses XDR
* http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hollingd/netprog/notes/xdr/xdr.pdf
* [http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/sunrpc/?cvsroot=glibc The GNU Libc implementation of rpcgen, the XDR parser.]
* [http://labs.mudynamics.com/2008/03/24/ruby-xdr-parser/ Mu Dynamics Research Labs racc grammar for XDR]
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