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#8 in #pack-unpack
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Used in 2 crates
(via psibase)
59KB
1.5K
SLoC
Rust support for the fracpack format.
Psibase uses a new binary format, fracpack
, which has the following goals:
- Quickly pack and unpack data, making it suitable for service-to-service communication, node-to-node communication, blockchain-to-outside communication, and database storage.
- Forwards and backwards compatibility; it supports adding new optional fields to the end of structs and tuples, even when they are embedded in variable-length vectors, fixed-length arrays, optional, and other structs and tuples.
- Option to read without unpacking (almost zero-copy); helps to efficiently handle large data. TODO: this library doesn't implement this feature yet.
- Doesn't require a code generator to support either C++ or Rust; macros and metaprogramming handle it.
- Efficient compression when combined with the compression algorithm from Cap 'n' Proto.
Example use
use fracpack::{Pack, Unpack, Result};
#[derive(Pack, Unpack, PartialEq, Debug)]
#[fracpack(fracpack_mod = "fracpack")]
struct Example {
a_string: String,
a_tuple: (u32, String),
}
let orig = Example {
a_string: "content".into(),
a_tuple: (1234, "5678".into()),
};
// Convert to fracpack format
let packed: Vec<u8> = orig.packed();
// Convert from fracpack format
let unpacked = Example::unpacked(&packed)?;
assert_eq!(orig, unpacked);
Note: #[fracpack(fracpack_mod = "fracpack")]
is only needed when using the fracpack
library directly instead of through the psibase crate.
Caution
It's easy to accidentally convert from a fixed-size
array reference (&[T;7]
) to a slice (&[T]
). This matters
to fracpack, which has different, and incompatible, encodings
for the two types.
Dependencies
~3MB
~67K SLoC