Crate manual_serializer
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This crate provides functionality for manual serialization and deserialization of
data from u8
buffers. If you are looking for proper serialization libraries please
consider using serde
. This crate is useful for
direct value extraction from memory buffers where you need to quickly extract values
from structured data that may not be aligned.
NOTE: Current implementation support extraction only for primitives encoded with little-endian encoding.
Example
#[derive(Debug)]
pub struct Header {
pub magic : usize,
pub version : u16,
pub payload : Vec<u8>,
}
impl TrySerialize for Header {
type Error = Error;
fn try_serialize(&self, dest: &mut Serializer) -> Result<()> {
dest.try_align_u32()?;
dest.try_store_u16le(self.magic as u16)?;
dest.try_store_u16le(self.version)?;
dest.try_store_u32le(self.payload.len() as u32)?;
dest.try_store_u8_slice(&self.payload)?;
Ok(())
}
}
fn store() {
let mut dest = Serializer::new(4096);
let header = Header::default();
dest.try_store(&header)?;
}
impl TryDeserialize for Header {
type Error = Error;
fn try_deserialize(src: &mut Deserializer) -> Result<Header> {
src.try_align_u32()?;
let magic = src.try_load_u16le()? as usize;
let version = src.try_load_u16le()?;
let payload_length = src.try_load_u32le()? as usize;
let payload = src.try_load_u8_vec(payload_length)?.to_vec()?;
Ok(Header{magic, version, payload})
}
}
fn load(data: &[u8], offset: usize) -> Result<(u32,Header)>{
let mut src = Deserializer::new(data);
src.offset(offset)?;
let signature = src.try_load_u32le()?;
let header: Header = src.try_load()?;
Ok((signature,header))
}
Re-exports
Modules
Structs
Deserializer referring an existing
u8
bufferSerializer struct containing a serialization buffer.
Please note that this struct expects to have a sufficiently large buffer
to perform the ongoing serialization.
Traits
Deserialize trait accepted by
Deserializer::load
Serialize trait accepted by the
Serializer::store
TryDeserialize trait accepted by
Deserializer::try_load
TrySerialize trait accepted by the
Serializer::try_store
Functions
load u8 value from the supplied buffer
load u16 little-endian value from the supplied buffer
load u32 little-endian value from the supplied buffer
load u64 little-endian value from the supplied buffer
store u8 value in the supplied buffer, returning the number of bytes written
store u16 little-endian value in the supplied buffer, returning the number of bytes written
store u32 little-endian value in the supplied buffer, returning the number of bytes written
store u64 little-endian value in the supplied buffer, returning the number of bytes written