Function serde_bencode::ser::to_bytes

pub fn to_bytes<T: Serialize>(b: &T) -> Result<Vec<u8>>

Serialize the given data into a bencode byte vector.

Examples

use serde_derive::{Serialize, Deserialize};

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Debug)]
struct Address {
    street: String,
    city: String,
}

let address = Address {
    street: "1313 Webfoot Walk".to_string(),
    city: "Duckburg, Calisota".to_string(),
};

let bytes = serde_bencode::to_bytes(&address)?;
assert_eq!(
    String::from_utf8(bytes),
    Ok("d4:city18:Duckburg, Calisota6:street17:1313 Webfoot Walke".to_string()),
);

Errors

Serialization can fail if T's implementation of Serialize decides to fail or T contains floating point values, which bencode cannot serialize.