Crate rustvdif 

A rust crate for interacting with data encoded in the VLBI Data Interchange Format (VDIF), commonly used in radio astronomy experiments. The VDIF data format is defined in the VDIF specification, found here.

Check out the examples for more information on using this library.

In general, this library assumes that the user has some knowledge of the data stream they are trying to process, as is usually the case for streams of VDIF data. Therefore, much of the functionality of this library depends on the user knowing the size of the incoming VDIF frames in particular, as this massively simplfies the code and improves performance. Wherever the user sees a frame_size parameter, they should assume that this is the size of the frame in bytes including the header.

Modules

decoding

Functions for decoding VDIF headers and payloads.

encoding

Functions for encoding VDIF headers and payloads.

net

Functionality for sending/receiving VDIF data over a network

utils

A collection of utilities for building applications based on the VDIF data format.

Structs

VDIFFrame

A VDIF Frame.

VDIFHeader

A VDIF Header.

Functions

read_frame

Read a VDIF frame from any Read type

read_vtp_frame

Read a VDIF frame from any Read type, along with its VTP sequence number

write_frame

Write a VDIF frame to any Write type

write_vtp_frame

Write a VDIF frame to any Write type, along with a u64 VTP sequence number