ucpack

Rust implementation of the ucpack serialization format used in the Arduino Alvik using serde.

This crate does not implement the body protocol itself, but rather the binary serialization format it uses to encode its messages.

The crate

This crate exposes a struct called UcPack which you can initialize to start encoding and decoding serde compatible data types and structures.

[!WARNING] Not every type is compatible with ucpack. Namely any integer above 16 bits, lists and maps.

You can also const initialize UcPack and use it const-ly from anywhere if carrying state isn't an option:

const packer: UcPack = UcPack::new(b'A', b'#');

fn main() {
    packer.serialize_slice(...); // ecc..
}

The protocol

[!NOTE] Table gently borrowed from ucpack's c++ repo

A packet is managed as:

This crate, opposed to the c++ and micropython respectives, is agnostic across the message content (referred to by the name payload in this crate).