Module serialization 

Bitcoin wire format serialization/deserialization

Consensus-critical serialization functions that must match consensus wire format exactly for consensus compatibility.

All serialization uses little-endian byte order (Bitcoin standard).

Modules

block

Block header wire format serialization/deserialization

transaction

Transaction wire format serialization/deserialization

varint

Bitcoin VarInt encoding/decoding

Enums

VarIntError

Error type for VarInt encoding/decoding failures

Functions

decode_varint

Decode a Bitcoin VarInt from bytes

deserialize_block_header

Deserialize a block header from Bitcoin wire format

deserialize_block_with_witnesses

Deserialize a complete block from Bitcoin wire format (including witness data)

deserialize_transaction

Deserialize a transaction from Bitcoin wire format

deserialize_transaction_with_offset

Deserialize a transaction, returning (tx, bytes_consumed). Convenience wrapper that discards witness data.

deserialize_transaction_with_witness

Deserialize a transaction from Bitcoin wire format, returning transaction, witness, and bytes consumed

encode_varint

Encode a u64 value as a Bitcoin VarInt

serialize_block

Serialize a block without witness data (convenience for non-SegWit blocks)

serialize_block_header

Serialize a block header to Bitcoin wire format

serialize_block_with_witnesses

Serialize a complete block to Bitcoin wire format (including witness data)

serialize_transaction

Serialize a transaction to Bitcoin wire format

serialize_transaction_into

Serialize transaction into an existing buffer

serialize_transaction_with_witness

Serialize a transaction in SegWit wire format

validate_block_serialized_size

Validate that a serialized block size matches the size implied by the Block + Witness data