Crate bitlab [−] [src]

Objective:

To extract a range of bits from a binary data source or to insert a range of bits into a binary data structure

Status

Experimental

Documentation

This crate is published at crates.io. The detailed documentation is available at docs.rs/bitlab

Version

0.6.0

Usage

In your Cargo.toml file, add bitlab = "0.6" under [dependencies]
In your source file, add extern crate bitlab and use bitlab::*;

Example 1:

Start at bit offset 1, extract 3 bits and interpret the result as u8

use bitlab::*;
let a: i8 = -33; // = 0b1101_1111;
let b = a.get_u8(1, 3).unwrap();  // 1 --> 101 <-- 1111
//                                         = 5
assert_eq!(b, 5);

Example 2:

use bitlab::*;
let a: u8 = 0b0000_0101;

// Get the most significant bit. It has the bit offset 0
assert_eq!(a.get_bit(0).unwrap(), false);

// Set the most significant bit. Expect 0b1000_0101
assert_eq!(a.set_bit(0).unwrap(), 133);

// Clear the most significant bit. Expect 0b0000_0101
assert_eq!(a.clear_bit(0).unwrap(), 5);

Example 3:

The data source is a vector of u8 types. We want to go to byte offset 1, bit offset 7 and starting from there extract 3 bits as an u16

use bitlab::*;
let v: Vec<u8> = vec!{ 0x48, 0x61, 0x6C, 0x6C, 0x6F }; // = "Hallo"
let bar = v.get_u16(1, 7, 3); // relevant bytes = 0x616C = 0b0110_000  --> 1_01 <-- 10_1100
//                                                                         = 5
assert_eq!(bar.unwrap(), 5);

Example 4:

Insert a 2 bit unsigned integer value (b = 3) into a variable starting at the bit offset 1, where the offset = zero is the most significant bit.

use bitlab::*;
let a : u8 = 0;
let b : u8 = 3;
assert_eq!(a.set_u8(1, 2, b).unwrap(), 0b0110_0000);

Example 5:

There is a very simple application in the examples directory, which extracts the color resolution from a real gif file. To run it enter the following in the command line

cargo run --release --example gif

MIT Licence

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Traits

ExtractBitsFromIntegralTypes	Defines a number of functions, which extract a range of bits from primitive numeric types (u8, u16, u32 and u64, i8, i16, i32 and i64) and return the result as one of the following types (u8, u16, u32 and u64, i8, i16, i32 and i64) E.g. the a.get_u8(5,3) function extracts the bits 5,6 and 7 of the variable a and returns the result as a u8 variable
ExtractBitsFromVecU8	Defines a number of functions, which extract a range of bits from a Vec There is one function for each variable type to be returned Important: the contents of the vectored are assumed to be in big endian (network) order
InsertBitsIntoIntegralTypes	Defines a number of functions, which insert any integer value into any integer type (u8, u16, u32 and u64, i8, i16, i32 and i64) and return the result as the same type.
SignedInfo	A trait to find out if a varibale type is signed or unsigned for integer types.
SingleBits	Defines a set of functions to get, set and clear single bits
TypeInfo	A trait to get the data type as a string for a integer and floating point types.

Functions

n_required_bits_for_a_signed_int	How many bits does it take to write a signed integer?
n_required_bits_for_an_unsigned_int	How many bits does it take to write an unsigned integer?