ferrotunnel-protocol

Wire protocol definitions and codec for FerroTunnel.

Overview

This crate defines the binary protocol used for tunnel communication:

• 12 frame types for control, data, and keepalive
• Length-prefixed codec with bincode serialization
• 4MB max frame size with validation

Frame Types

Control Frames

• Handshake / HandshakeAck - Connection establishment
• Register / RegisterAck - Tunnel registration

Stream Frames

• OpenStream / StreamAck - Stream creation
• Data - Payload transfer
• CloseStream - Stream termination

Keepalive

• Heartbeat / HeartbeatAck - Connection health

Other

• Error - Error reporting
• PluginData - Plugin communication

Usage

use ferrotunnel_protocol::{Frame, TunnelCodec};
use tokio_util::codec::{Framed, Decoder};

// Create a codec for framing
let codec = TunnelCodec::new();

// Create frames
let frame = Frame::Heartbeat { 
    timestamp: 1234567890 
};

License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.