varintbuf
=====================
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This crate provides varint encoding/decoding and is based on the [varinteger](https://github.com/datrs/varinteger/) crate, but is adapted for [bytes](https://github.com/tokio-rs/bytes).
## Usage
## Decode
```rust
extern crate bytes;
// decode a `u64` integer from a buffer
let mut buf = &[100u8, 232, 7][..];
let value = varintbuf::decode(&mut buf);
assert_eq!(value, 100);
let mut buf = Bytes::from(buf);
let value = varintbuf::decode(&mut buf);
assert_eq!(value, 1000)
```
## Encode
```rust
extern crate bytes;
// encode a `u64` integer into a buffer
let mut buf = Vec::new();
let mut bytes_encoded = encode(100, &mut buf);
assert_eq!(buf[0], 100);
let mut buf = BytesMut::from(&*buf);
bytes_encoded += encode(1000, &mut buf);
assert_eq!(buf[1], 232);
assert_eq!(buf[2], 7);
assert_eq!(bytes_encoded, 3);
assert_eq!(bytes_encoded, buf.len());
```
## License
Licensed under either of these:
* Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or
https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)