epee-serde 0.1.2

A serde format for the binary encoding defined within the epee helper library of Monero.
Documentation
use std::io::BufRead;

use super::read_ext::ReadExt;
use super::{Error, Result};

pub fn encode(number: usize) -> Vec<u8> {
    const BITS_FOR_SIZE: u32 = 2;

    const FITS_IN_ONE_BYTE: usize = 64; // 2usize.pow(8 - BITS_FOR_SIZE);
    const FITS_IN_TWO_BYTES: usize = 16384; // 2usize.pow(16 - BITS_FOR_SIZE);
    const FITS_IN_FOUR_BYTES: usize = 1073741824; // 2usize.pow(32 - BITS_FOR_SIZE);

    let size_marker = if number < FITS_IN_ONE_BYTE {
        0
    } else if number < FITS_IN_TWO_BYTES {
        1
    } else if number < FITS_IN_FOUR_BYTES {
        2
    } else {
        3
    };
    let number = number << BITS_FOR_SIZE; // make space for the size marker
    let number = number | size_marker; // store the size marker in the number

    match size_marker {
        0 => vec![number as u8],
        1 => (number as u16).to_le_bytes().to_vec(),
        2 => (number as u32).to_le_bytes().to_vec(),
        3 => (number as u64).to_le_bytes().to_vec(),
        _ => unreachable!(),
    }
}

pub fn decode(stream: &mut impl BufRead) -> Result<usize> {
    let v = stream.fill_buf()?[0];

    let mask = v & 0x03;

    let number = match mask {
        0 => stream.read_u8()? as usize,
        1 => stream.read_u16()? as usize,
        2 => stream.read_u32()? as usize,
        3 => stream.read_u64()? as usize,
        _ => return Err(Error::InvalidVarIntMask),
    };

    Ok(number >> 2)
}