Baze64

The baze64 rust library & accompanying CLI

Usage

Library

Simply add

baze64 = "<VERSION>"

to your Cargo.toml where <VERSION> is the latest version of the crate. Alternatively, run

cargo add baze64

for this to be done for you.

CLI

Run baze64 encode <STRING> to encode a string or baze64 encode -f <FILE> to encode a file. Decode a base64 string by running

baze64 decode <STRING>

where <STRING> is a base64 encoded string, adding -o <FILE> to output to <FILE>

lib.rs:

Encode & decode base64 to & from arbitrary byte sequences

All encoding & decoding is done via the Base64String struct, using an alphabet implementing the Alphabet trait

Examples

Encode & decode a string:

let text = "Some text".to_string();
let encoded = Base64String::<Standard>::encode(text.as_bytes());
let decoded = encoded.decode()?;

assert_eq!(text, String::from_utf8(decoded)?);

Encode & decode a file:

let mut file = File::open("path/to/file.ext")?;
let mut buffer = Vec::new();
file.read_to_end(&mut buffer)?;
let encoded = Base64String::<Standard>::encode(&buffer);
let bytes = encoded.decode()?;

assert_eq!(buffer, bytes);