bitbuffer

Tools for reading data types of arbitrary bit length and might not be byte-aligned in the source data

The main way of handling with the binary data is to first create a [BitBuffer] ,wrap it into a [BitStream] and then read from the stream.

Once you have a BitStream, there are 2 different approaches of reading data

• read primitives, Strings and byte arrays, using [read_bool], [read_int], [read_float], [read_bytes] and [read_string]
• read any type implementing the [BitRead] or [BitReadSized] traits using [read] and [read_sized]
  • [BitRead] is for types that can be read without requiring any size info (e.g. null-terminal strings, floats, whole integers, etc)
  • [BitReadSized] is for types that require external sizing information to be read (fixed length strings, arbitrary length integers

The [BitRead] and [BitReadSized] traits can be used with #[derive] if all fields implement [BitRead] or [BitReadSized].

Examples

use bitbuffer::{BitReadBuffer, LittleEndian, BitReadStream, BitRead};

#[derive(BitRead)]
struct ComplexType {
    first: u8,
    #[size = 15]
    second: u16,
    third: bool,
}

let bytes = vec![
    0b1011_0101, 0b0110_1010, 0b1010_1100, 0b1001_1001,
    0b1001_1001, 0b1001_1001, 0b1001_1001, 0b1110_0111
];
let buffer = BitReadBuffer::new(bytes, LittleEndian);
let mut stream = BitReadStream::new(buffer);
let value: u8 = stream.read_int(7)?;
let complex: ComplexType = stream.read()?;

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

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