dh 0.2.0

Data handling in Rust, made easy.
Documentation

Features

  • Read and write files in streams
  • No unsafe code
  • Support for a lot of data types (including variable length integers and custom length integers)
  • Read and write u8 vectors
  • std::io::Read and std::io::Write implementations for Readable and Writable (happens automatically as they extend these traits)

Planned features

  • Floating point number support
  • Partial read & write access
  • Temporary file storage for large data
  • Copying data from a Readable to a Writable

Installation

cargo add dh

Documentation

The documentation can be found on docs.rs.

Usage

Simple file reading

use dh::recommended::*;

fn main() {
    let mut file = dh::file::open_r("data.txt").unwrap();
    let size = file.size().unwrap();
    assert_eq!(file.read_utf8(size), "Hello, world!\n");
}

Simple file writing

use dh::recommended::*;

fn main() {
    let mut file = dh::file::open_w("data.txt").unwrap();
    file.write_utf8_at("Hello, world!\n", 0);
    file.close(); // optional, but recommended
}

Open a file in read/write mode

use dh::recommended::*;

fn main() {
    let mut file = dh::file::open_rw("data.txt").unwrap();
    file.write_utf8_at("Hello, world!\n", 0);
    file.rw_rewind(); // just calling rewind would result into a conflict between Readable and Writable
    assert_eq!(file.read_utf8(file.size()), "Hello, world!\n");
}

Read and write u8 vectors

Recommended: borrowing

Immutable borrowing
use dh::recommended::*;

fn main() {
    let mut data = vec![31u8; 1];
    let mut rw = dh::data::read_ref(&data);
    assert_eq!(rw.read_u8(), 31);
}
Mutable borrowing
use dh::recommended::*;

fn main() {
    let mut data = vec![0u8; 1];
    let mut rw = dh::data::rw_ref(&mut data);
    rw.write_u8(31);
    rw.rw_rewind();
    assert_eq!(rw.read_u8(), 31);
}

Alternative: moving

use dh::recommended::*;

fn main() {
    let data = vec![0u8; 1];
    let mut rw = dh::data::rw(data);
    rw.write_u8(31);
    rw.rw_rewind();
    assert_eq!(rw.read_u8(), 31);

    let data = dh::data::close(rw);
    assert_eq!(data, vec![31]);
}

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.