Trait Visitor 

pub trait Visitor<'a, Err> {
    // Provided methods
    fn visit_simple(&mut self, item: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Err> { ... }
    fn visit_array_begin(
        &mut self,
        array: TaggedItem<'a>,
        size: Option<u64>,
    ) -> Result<bool, Err> { ... }
    fn visit_array_index(
        &mut self,
        array: TaggedItem<'a>,
        index: u64,
    ) -> Result<bool, Err> { ... }
    fn visit_array_end(&mut self, array: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Err> { ... }
    fn visit_dict_begin(
        &mut self,
        dict: TaggedItem<'a>,
        size: Option<u64>,
    ) -> Result<bool, Err> { ... }
    fn visit_dict_key(
        &mut self,
        dict: TaggedItem<'a>,
        key: TaggedItem<'a>,
        is_first: bool,
    ) -> Result<bool, Err> { ... }
    fn visit_dict_end(&mut self, dict: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Err> { ... }
}

Visitor for the structure of a CBOR item.

The visit is guided by the visitor in the sense that uninteresting arrays, dicts, or some of their values can be skipped by returning false from the respective methods.

Note the different lifetimes needed on the impl Visitor! The first lifetime 'a describes how long the underlying Cbor value lives, i.e. how long the items passed into the visitor’s methods stay available. The second lifetime 'b denotes the mutable borrow of the String we’re writing into, which needs to be more short-lived since we want to move the String before the Cbor expires.

Example:

use std::fmt::{Error, Formatter, Write};
use cbor_data::{Cbor, CborOwned, TaggedItem, Visitor};

fn pretty_print(value: &Cbor) -> Result<String, Error> {
    struct X<'a>(&'a mut String);
    impl<'a, 'b> Visitor<'a, Error> for X<'b> {
        fn visit_simple(&mut self, item: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Error> {
            write!(self.0, "{}", item)
        }
        fn visit_array_begin(&mut self, item: TaggedItem<'a>, size: Option<u64>) -> Result<bool, Error> {
            write!(self.0, "[")?;
            Ok(true)
        }
        fn visit_array_index(&mut self, item: TaggedItem<'a>, idx: u64) -> Result<bool, Error> {
            if idx > 0 {
                write!(self.0, ", ")?;
            }
            Ok(true)
        }
        fn visit_array_end(&mut self, item: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Error> {
            write!(self.0, "]")
        }
        fn visit_dict_begin(&mut self, item: TaggedItem<'a>, size: Option<u64>) -> Result<bool, Error> {
            write!(self.0, "{{")?;
            Ok(true)
        }
        fn visit_dict_key(&mut self, item: TaggedItem<'a>, key: TaggedItem<'a>, is_first: bool) -> Result<bool, Error> {
            if !is_first {
                write!(self.0, ", ")?;
            }
            write!(self.0, "{}: ", key)?;
            Ok(true)
        }
        fn visit_dict_end(&mut self, item: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Error> {
            write!(self.0, "}}")
        }
    }
    let mut s = String::new();
    value.visit(&mut X(&mut s))?;
    Ok(s)
}

let bytes = vec![
    0xc4u8, 0x84, 5, 0xa2, 0x61, b'a', 0x39, 2, 154, 0x61, b'b', 0x46, b'd', b'e', b'f', b'd',
    b'e', b'f', 0x82, 0xf4, 0x65, b'h', b'e', b'l', b'l', b'o', 0xd9, 48, 57, 0xf6,
];
let cbor = CborOwned::canonical(bytes).expect("invalid CBOR");

let pretty = pretty_print(cbor.as_ref()).expect("should always be able to write to a String …");

assert_eq!(pretty, r#"[5, {"a": -667, "b": h'646566646566'}, [false, "hello"], 12345(null)]"#);

Provided Methods

fn visit_simple(&mut self, item: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Err>

Visit a simple item, i.e. item.kind will neither be Array nor Dict.

fn visit_array_begin( &mut self, array: TaggedItem<'a>, size: Option<u64>, ) -> Result<bool, Err>

Visit the beginning of an array. size is None for indefinite size encoding. Return false to skip this array, meaning that visit_array_index will NOT be called for it.

fn visit_array_index( &mut self, array: TaggedItem<'a>, index: u64, ) -> Result<bool, Err>

Visit an array element at the given index. Return false to skip over the element’s contents, otherwise nested items (simple or otherwise) will be visited before visiting the next element or the array’s end.

fn visit_array_end(&mut self, array: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Err>

Visit the end of the current array.

fn visit_dict_begin( &mut self, dict: TaggedItem<'a>, size: Option<u64>, ) -> Result<bool, Err>

Visit the beginning of an dict. size is None for indefinite size encoding. Return false to skip this dict, meaning that visit_dict_key will NOT be called for it.

fn visit_dict_key( &mut self, dict: TaggedItem<'a>, key: TaggedItem<'a>, is_first: bool, ) -> Result<bool, Err>

Visit a dict value at the given key. Return false to skip over the value’s contents, otherwise nested items (simple or otherwise) will be visited before visiting the next key or the dict’s end.

In most cases the key will be a string or an integer. In the rare case where a key is a complex struct, you can visit it manually.

fn visit_dict_end(&mut self, dict: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Err>

Visit the end of the current dict.

Implementations on Foreign Types

impl<'a> Visitor<'a, Error> for &mut Formatter<'_>

fn visit_simple(&mut self, item: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Error>

fn visit_array_begin( &mut self, array: TaggedItem<'a>, size: Option<u64>, ) -> Result<bool, Error>

fn visit_array_index( &mut self, _array: TaggedItem<'a>, index: u64, ) -> Result<bool, Error>

fn visit_array_end(&mut self, array: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Error>

fn visit_dict_begin( &mut self, dict: TaggedItem<'a>, size: Option<u64>, ) -> Result<bool, Error>

fn visit_dict_key( &mut self, _dict: TaggedItem<'a>, key: TaggedItem<'a>, is_first: bool, ) -> Result<bool, Error>

fn visit_dict_end(&mut self, dict: TaggedItem<'a>) -> Result<(), Error>

Implementors