serde-encoded-bytes 0.1.1

Efficient bytestring serialization for Serde-supporting types
Documentation
use alloc::{string::String, vec::Vec};

use base64::{engine::general_purpose, Engine as _};
use serde::de;

use super::Encoding;

/// Encodes the byte sequence into a base64 representation.
pub struct Base64;

impl Encoding for Base64 {
    fn encode(bytes: &[u8]) -> String {
        general_purpose::STANDARD_NO_PAD.encode(bytes)
    }

    fn decode<E: de::Error>(string: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>, E> {
        general_purpose::STANDARD_NO_PAD
            .decode(string)
            .map_err(de::Error::custom)
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use alloc::string::{String, ToString};

    use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

    use super::Base64;
    use crate::ArrayLike;

    #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
    struct ArrayStruct(#[serde(with = "ArrayLike::<Base64>")] [u8; 4]);

    fn hr_serialize<T: Serialize>(value: T) -> Result<String, String> {
        serde_json::to_string(&value).map_err(|err| err.to_string())
    }

    fn hr_deserialize<'de, T: Deserialize<'de>>(string: &'de str) -> Result<T, String> {
        serde_json::from_str::<T>(string).map_err(|err| err.to_string())
    }

    #[test]
    fn roundtrip() {
        let val = ArrayStruct([1, 0xf2, 3, 0xf4]);

        let val_str = hr_serialize(&val).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(val_str, "\"AfID9A\"");
        let val_back = hr_deserialize::<ArrayStruct>(&val_str).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(val, val_back);
    }
}