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positioned-io-preview deprecated
The changes published in this crate have been merged back into
positioned-io
.
lib.rs
:
This crate allows you to specify an offset for reads and writes,
without changing the current position in a file. This is similar to
pread()
and pwrite()
in C.
The major advantages of this type of I/O are:
- You don't need to seek before doing a random-access read or write, which is convenient.
- Reads don't modify the file at all, so don't require mutability.
Preview release!
This is a preview release of positioned-io. All examples assume you are using it as:
extern crate positioned_io_preview as positioned_io;
Examples
Read the fifth 512-byte sector of a file:
#
use std::fs::File;
use positioned_io::ReadAt;
// note that file does not need to be mut
let file = File::open("tests/pi.txt")?;
// read up to 512 bytes
let mut buf = [0; 512];
let bytes_read = file.read_at(2048, &mut buf)?;
#
Note: If possible use the
RandomAccessFile
wrapper. ReadAt
directly on File
is very slow on Windows.
Write an integer to the middle of a file:
#
use std::fs::OpenOptions;
use positioned_io::WriteAt;
use byteorder::{ByteOrder, LittleEndian};
// put the integer in a buffer
let mut buf = [0; 4];
LittleEndian::write_u32(&mut buf, 1234);
// write it to the file
let mut file = OpenOptions::new().write(true).open("foo.data")?;
file.write_all_at(1 << 20, &buf)?;
Or, more simply:
#
use std::fs::OpenOptions;
use byteorder::LittleEndian;
use positioned_io::WriteBytesAtExt;
let mut file = OpenOptions::new().write(true).open("foo.data")?;
file.write_u32_at::<LittleEndian>(1 << 20, 1234)?;
Read from anything else that supports ReadAt
, like a byte array:
#
{
use byteorder::BigEndian;
use positioned_io::ReadBytesAtExt;
let buf = [0, 5, 254, 212, 0, 3];
let n = buf.as_ref().read_i16_at::<BigEndian>(2)?;
assert_eq!(n, -300);