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//! CBOR and serialization. //! //! # What is CBOR? //! [CBOR](http://cbor.io) is a way to encode data in a space-efficient and fast binary format. //! CBORs data-model is a superset of the JSONs. //! //! A simple object describing a person in diagnostic notation (it is actually JSON plus some //! annotations) looks like //! //! ```json //! { //! "FirstName": "John", //! "LastName": "Doe", //! "Age": 43, //! "Address": { //! "Street": "Downing Street 10", //! "City": "London", //! "Country": "Great Britain" //! }, //! "PhoneNumbers": [ //! "+44 1234567", //! "+44 2345678" //! ] //! } //! ``` //! //! The CBOR encoded object with comments in hexadecimal notation looks like //! //! ```cbor //! a5 # map(5) //! 69 # text(9) //! 46697273744e616d65 # "FirstName" //! 64 # text(4) //! 4a6f686e # "John" //! 68 # text(8) //! 4c6173744e616d65 # "LastName" //! 63 # text(3) //! 446f65 # "Doe" //! 63 # text(3) //! 416765 # "Age" //! 18 2b # unsigned(43) //! 67 # text(7) //! 41646472657373 # "Address" //! a3 # map(3) //! 66 # text(6) //! 537472656574 # "Street" //! 71 # text(17) //! 446f776e696e6720537472656574203130 # "Downing Street 10" //! 64 # text(4) //! 43697479 # "City" //! 66 # text(6) //! 4c6f6e646f6e # "London" //! 67 # text(7) //! 436f756e747279 # "Country" //! 6d # text(13) //! 4772656174204272697461696e # "Great Britain" //! 6c # text(12) //! 50686f6e654e756d62657273 # "PhoneNumbers" //! 82 # array(2) //! 6b # text(11) //! 2b34342031323334353637 # "+44 1234567" //! 6b # text(11) //! 2b34342032333435363738 # "+44 2345678" //! ``` //! While the JSON encoding is 174 bytes long the CBOR representation is only 141 bytes long. //! This is 19% shorter! Sometimes compression will even better, but never CBOR will be longer //! than the corresponding JSON. More importantly CBOR supports binary data, custom data tyes, //! annotations for dates, times and expected encoding and is faster to serialize and deserialize. //! It can even be used on embedded devices. //! //! # Type-based Serialization and Deserialization //! Serde provides a mechanism for low boilerplate serialization & deserialization of values to and //! from CBOR via the serialization API. To be able to serialize a piece of data, it must implement //! the `serde::Serialize` trait. To be able to deserialize a piece of data, it must implement the //! `serde::Deserialize` trait. Serde provides an annotation to automatically generate the //! code for these traits: `#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]`. //! //! The CBOR API also provides an enum `serde_cbor::Value`. //! //! # Packed Encoding //! When serializing structs or enums in CBOR the keys or enum variant names will be serialized //! as string keys to a map. Esspecially in embedded environments this can increase the file //! size too much. In packed encoding the keys and variants will be serialized as variable sized //! integers. The first 24 entries in any struct consume only a single byte! //! To serialize a document in packed encoding use `ser::to_(vec|writer)_packed`, deserialization //! works without any changes. //! //! # Self describing documents //! In some contexts different formats are used but there is no way to declare the format used //! out of band. For this reason CBOR has a magic number that may be added before any document. //! The *`_sd` (for *s*elf*d*escribe) append the magic number before documents. //! //! # Examples //! Read a CBOR value that is known to be a map of string keys to string values and print it. //! //! ```rust //! use std::collections::HashMap; //! use serde_cbor::from_slice; //! //! let slice = b"\xa5aaaAabaBacaCadaDaeaE"; //! let value: HashMap<String, String> = from_slice(slice).unwrap(); //! println!("{:?}", value); // {"e": "E", "d": "D", "a": "A", "c": "C", "b": "B"} //! ``` //! //! Read a general CBOR value with an unknown content. //! //! ```rust //! use serde_cbor::{from_slice, Value}; //! //! let slice = b"\x82\x01\xa1aaab"; //! let value: Value = from_slice(slice).unwrap(); //! println!("{:?}", value); // Array([U64(1), Object({String("a"): String("b")})]) //! ``` //! //! Serialize an object. //! //! ```rust //! use std::collections::HashMap; //! use serde_cbor::to_vec; //! //! let mut programming_languages = HashMap::new(); //! programming_languages.insert("rust", vec!["safe", "concurrent", "fast"]); //! programming_languages.insert("python", vec!["powerful", "friendly", "open"]); //! programming_languages.insert("js", vec!["lightweight", "interpreted", "object-oriented"]); //! let encoded = to_vec(&programming_languages); //! assert_eq!(encoded.unwrap().len(), 103); //! ``` #![deny(missing_docs)] extern crate byteorder; extern crate serde; extern crate serde_bytes; pub use de::{from_slice, from_reader}; pub use error::{Error, Result}; pub use ser::to_vec; pub use value::{Value, ObjectKey}; pub mod de; pub mod error; pub mod ser; pub mod value;