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#1918 in Encoding
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cbor-tools
is a toolkit for manipulating CBOR-encoded data.
CBOR is a data serialization format described in RFC7049. CBOR is a binary-friendly self-describing data encoding that has built-in types for:
- Integers and Floating point numbers
- Arrays and Maps
- Arbitrary-length UTF-8 text strings
- Arbitrary-length bytestrings
Other crates (i.e. serde_cbor
) provide serde
serialization and
deserialization of native Rust data structures.
This crate provides tools for constructing and deconstructing CBOR with fine-grained control, including:
- indefinite-length encoding
- non-canonical encoding of integers
- tagged types
- sequences that may fail in strict-mode decoders
- malformed sequences (for testing decoders, perhaps)
Display
of low-level CBOR-encoded data
To encode some data in CBOR, create one or more CborType
values,
and then call encode()
on them:
use cbor_tools::{CborType, Encode};
let my_data = vec![1, 2, 3];
let cbor_tree = CborType::from(my_data);
let cbor_bytes = cbor_tree.encode();
// cbor_bytes is a Vec<u8>
There is a From<T>
implementation available for many simple types.
Additional data structures can be built by hand, like this non-homogenous
array:
use cbor_tools::{CborType, Encode};
// An array containing a string and an integer.
let list = vec![
CborType::from("abc"),
CborType::from(123),
];
let cbor_tree = CborType::from(list);
let cbor_bytes = cbor_tree.encode();
// cbor_bytes is a Vec<u8>
Decoding of arbitrary CBOR data can be performed using the Decode
trait.
To examine the low-level details of CBOR-encoded data, use the
DecodeSymbolic
trait, which optionally implements Display
if the display
feature is enabled.
Dependencies
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