Module format 

Pure Rust HDF5 on-disk format codec.

This crate handles encoding and decoding of HDF5 binary structures (superblock, object headers, messages, chunk indices) without performing any file I/O. It is used by hdf5-io and hdf5 crates.

Modules

btree_v1

B-tree v1 decode (for reading legacy HDF5 files).

checksum

Jenkins lookup3 hash (hashlittle) – a byte-exact port of HDF5’s H5checksum.c.

chunk_index

global_heap

Global Heap Collection (GCOL) – stores variable-length data such as variable-length strings.

local_heap

Local heap decode (for reading legacy HDF5 files).

messages

object_header

superblock

symbol_table

Symbol Table Node (SNOD) decode (for reading legacy HDF5 files).

szip

Structs

FormatContext

Format context carrying file-level encoding parameters

Enums

FormatError

Encode/decode error

Constants

UNDEF_ADDR

UNDEF address constant

Type Aliases

FormatResult