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A minimal, zero dependency protobuf encoder and decoder to encode/decode anything.
It is designed to create the value bytes of a protobuf Any, hence the name.
Due to its low level design, anybuf allows you to do things wrong in many ways and you should have a solid understanding of how protobuf encoding works in general to better understand the API.
The crate anybuf is split in two major components:
anybuf::Anybufis a protobuf encoderanybuf::Bufanyis a protobuf decoder
§Non goals
- protobuf 2 things
- Field sorting
- Groups support (deprecated, see https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/proto2/#groups)
§Supported
- Varint fields (bool/uint32/uint64/sint32/sint64/int32/int64)
- Variable length fields (string/bytes)
- Nested messages: Just append an
Anybufinstance - Repeated (bool/uint32/uint64/sint32/sint64/int32/int64/string/bytes/messages)
§Not yet supported
- Fixed length types
- Packed encoding for repeated fields
- Maps support (but you can use the equivalent encoding via repeated messages)