Serde Binary Advanced

Serde Binary Advanced is a Serde library enabling the serialization and deserialization of Rust objects to binary representations.

Features

Serialization and deserialization of Rust data structures to and from binary format
Full support for ASCII (through lowlevel-types) and UTF-8 characters and strings
Support for Big Endian and Little Endian (default) encoding
Comprehensive error reporting
Compression of usize markers for sequences and structures
Support for u128 and i128 types
Enums and variants stored as u32

Limitations

No support foe serializing or deserializing sequences or maps of unknown length

Installation

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
serde_binary_adv = { version = "1.0.0-beta.3" }
lowlevel_types = { version = "1.0.0-beta.3" }

Usage

Here's a quick example on how to use Serde Binary Advanced to serialize and deserialize a struct to and from binary:

use serde::{Serialize, Deserialize};
use serde_binary_adv::{Serializer, Deserializer, BinaryError, Result}

# [derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct Point {
    x: f64,
    y: f64,
}

fn main() {
    let point = Point { x: 1.0, y: 2.0 };

    let serialized = Serializer::to_bytes(&point, false).unwrap();
    let deserialized: Point = Deserializer::from_bytes(&serialized, false).unwrap();
	assert_eq!(value, deserialized,);
}

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