Crate ini_core 

Ini streaming parser

Simple, straight forward, super fast, no_std compatible streaming INI parser.

Examples

use ini_core as ini;

let document = "\
[SECTION]
;this is a comment
Key=Value";

let elements = [
	ini::Item::SectionEnd,
	ini::Item::Section("SECTION"),
	ini::Item::Comment("this is a comment"),
	ini::Item::Property("Key", Some("Value")),
	ini::Item::SectionEnd,
];

for (index, item) in ini::Parser::new(document).enumerate() {
	assert_eq!(item, elements[index]);
}

The SectionEnd pseudo element is returned before a new section and at the end of the document. This helps processing sections after their properties finished parsing.

The parser is very much line-based, it will continue no matter what and return nonsense as an item:

use ini_core as ini;

let document = "\
[SECTION
nonsense";

let elements = [
	ini::Item::SectionEnd,
	ini::Item::Error("[SECTION"),
	ini::Item::Property("nonsense", None),
	ini::Item::SectionEnd,
];

for (index, item) in ini::Parser::new(document).enumerate() {
	assert_eq!(item, elements[index]);
}

Lines starting with [ but contain either no closing ] or a closing ] not followed by a newline are returned as Item::Error. Lines missing a = are returned as Item::Property with None value. See below for more details.

Format

INI is not a well specified format, this parser tries to make as little assumptions as possible but it does make decisions.

• Newline is either "\r\n", "\n" or "\r". It can be mixed in a single document but this is not recommended.
• Section header is "[" section "]" newline. section can be anything except contain newlines.
• Property is key "=" value newline. key and value can be anything except contain newlines.
• Comment is ";" comment newline and Blank is just newline. The comment character can be customized.

Note that padding whitespace is not trimmed by default:

• Section [ SECTION ]’s name is <space>SECTION<space>.
• Property KEY = VALUE has key KEY<space> and value <space>VALUE.
• Comment ; comment’s comment is <space>comment.

No further processing of the input is done, eg. if escape sequences are necessary they must be processed by the caller.

Structs

Parser

Ini streaming parser.

Enums

Item

Ini element.

Functions

trim

Trims ascii whitespace from the start and end of the string slice.