Crate serial_line_ip

Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)

Pure Rust implementation of RFC 1055 Serial Line IP.

What is SLIP

SLIP is a very simple packet framing protocol. It is used to convert streams of bytes into frames and vice versa. It has no addressing, packet types, error correction or compression. SLIP just solves the problem of framing arbitrary sized data streams!

Examples

SLIP can be used to both encode and decode streams of bytes:

Encoding

The SLIP encoder can process multiple input slices before ending a packet:

use serial_line_ip::Encoder;

const INPUT_1: &[u8] = &[0x01, 0x02, 0x03];
const INPUT_2: &[u8] = &[0x04, 0x05, 0x06];
const EXPECTED: &[u8] = &[0xc0,
    0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06,
    0xc0
];
let mut output: [u8; 32] = [0; 32];

let mut slip = Encoder::new();

let mut totals = slip.encode(INPUT_1, &mut output).unwrap();
let expected_bytes_written = 1 + INPUT_1.len();
assert_eq!(expected_bytes_written, totals.written);

totals += slip.encode(INPUT_2, &mut output[totals.written..]).unwrap();
let expected_bytes_written = expected_bytes_written + INPUT_2.len();
assert_eq!(expected_bytes_written, totals.written);

totals += slip.finish(&mut output[totals.written..]).unwrap();
assert_eq!(expected_bytes_written + 1, totals.written);
assert_eq!(EXPECTED, &output[..totals.written]);

Decoding

Since the length and number of packets in a data stream (byte slice) is unknown upfront, the length of the input bytes processed, output slice and an indication if the end of a packet was reached, is provided by the decoder:

use serial_line_ip::Decoder;

const SLIP_ENCODED: [u8; 7] = [
    0xc0,
    0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05,
    0xc0
];
const DATA: [u8; 5] = [0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05];

let mut output: [u8; 32] = [0; 32];
let mut slip = Decoder::new();

let (input_bytes_processed, output_slice, is_end_of_packet) =
    slip.decode(&SLIP_ENCODED, &mut output).unwrap();

assert_eq!(SLIP_ENCODED.len(), input_bytes_processed);
assert_eq!(&DATA, output_slice);
assert_eq!(true, is_end_of_packet);

Structs

Decoder	SLIP decode context
EncodeTotals	The return type of encode that holds the bytes read and byte written after the encode operation.
Encoder	SLIP encoder context

Enums

Error

Errors encountered by SLIP.

Type Definitions

Result

Type alias for handling SLIP errors.