Trait NetlinkSerializable 

pub trait NetlinkSerializable {
    // Required methods
    fn message_type(&self) -> u16;
    fn buffer_len(&self) -> usize;
    fn serialize(&self, buffer: &mut [u8]);
}

Required Methods

fn message_type(&self) -> u16

fn buffer_len(&self) -> usize

Return the length of the serialized data.

Most netlink messages are encoded following a TLV scheme and this library takes advantage of this by pre-allocating buffers of the appropriate size when serializing messages, which is why buffer_len is needed.

fn serialize(&self, buffer: &mut [u8])

Serialize this types and write the serialized data into the given buffer. buffer’s length is exactly InnerMessage::buffer_len(). It means that if InnerMessage::buffer_len() is buggy and does not return the appropriate length, bad things can happen:

• if buffer_len() returns a value smaller than the actual data, emit() may panics
• if buffer_len() returns a value bigger than the actual data, the buffer will contain garbage

Panic

This method panics if the buffer is not big enough.

Dyn Compatibility

This trait is dyn compatible.

In older versions of Rust, dyn compatibility was called "object safety".

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