Crate ed

ed is a minimalist crate for deterministic binary encodings.

It provides Encode and Decode traits which can be implemented for any type that can be converted to or from bytes, and implements these traits for many built-in Rust types. It also provides derive macros so that Encode and Decode can be easily derived for structs.

ed is far simpler than serde because it does not attempt to create an abstraction which allows arbitrary kinds of encoding (JSON, MessagePack, etc.), and instead forces encodings to be decided on by the top-level type author. It is also significantly faster.

This crate has a focus on determinism (important for cryptographically hashed types) - so encodings are always big-endian and do not support floating point numbers or usize.

Traits

Decode	A trait for values that can be decoded from bytes deterministically.
Encode	A trait for values that can be encoded into bytes deterministically.
Terminated	A type is Terminated the length of the value being read can be determined when decoding.

Type Definitions

Result

A Result bound to the standard ed error type.

Derive Macros

Decode
Encode