| [](https://travis-ci.org/m4b/scroll) |
| ## Scroll - cast some magic |
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| ```text |
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| ### Documentation |
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| https://docs.rs/scroll |
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| ### Usage |
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| Add to your `Cargo.toml` |
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| ```toml, no_test |
| [dependencies] |
| scroll = "0.10" |
| ``` |
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| ### Overview |
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| Scroll implements several traits for read/writing generic containers (byte buffers are currently implemented by default). Most familiar will likely be the `Pread` trait, which at its basic takes an immutable reference to self, an immutable offset to read at, (and a parsing context, more on that later), and then returns the deserialized value. |
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| Because self is immutable, _**all** reads can be performed in parallel_ and hence are trivially parallelizable. |
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| A simple example demonstrates its flexibility: |
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| ```rust |
| use scroll::{ctx, Pread, LE}; |
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| fn main() -> Result<(), scroll::Error> { |
| let bytes: [u8; 4] = [0xde, 0xad, 0xbe, 0xef]; |
| |
| // reads a u32 out of `b` with the endianness of the host machine, at offset 0, turbofish-style |
| let number: u32 = bytes.pread::<u32>(0)?; |
| // ...or a byte, with type ascription on the binding. |
| let byte: u8 = bytes.pread(0)?; |
| |
| //If the type is known another way by the compiler, say reading into a struct field, we can omit the turbofish, and type ascription altogether! |
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| // If we want, we can explicitly add a endianness to read with by calling `pread_with`. |
| // The following reads a u32 out of `b` with Big Endian byte order, at offset 0 |
| let be_number: u32 = bytes.pread_with(0, scroll::BE)?; |
| // or a u16 - specify the type either on the variable or with the beloved turbofish |
| let be_number2 = bytes.pread_with::<u16>(2, scroll::BE)?; |
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| // Scroll has core friendly errors (no allocation). This will have the type `scroll::Error::BadOffset` because it tried to read beyond the bound |
| let byte: scroll::Result<i64> = bytes.pread(0); |
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| // Scroll is extensible: as long as the type implements `TryWithCtx`, then you can read your type out of the byte array! |
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| // We can parse out custom datatypes, or types with lifetimes |
| // if they implement the conversion trait `TryFromCtx`; here we parse a C-style \0 delimited &str (safely) |
| let hello: &[u8] = b"hello_world\0more words"; |
| let hello_world: &str = hello.pread(0)?; |
| assert_eq!("hello_world", hello_world); |
| |
| // ... and this parses the string if its space separated! |
| use scroll::ctx::*; |
| let spaces: &[u8] = b"hello world some junk"; |
| let world: &str = spaces.pread_with(6, StrCtx::Delimiter(SPACE))?; |
| assert_eq!("world", world); |
| Ok(()) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ### Deriving `Pread` and `Pwrite` |
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| Scroll implements a custom derive that can provide `Pread` and `Pwrite` implementations for your structs. |
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| ```rust |
| use scroll::{Pread, Pwrite, BE}; |
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| #[derive(Pread, Pwrite)] |
| struct Data { |
| one: u32, |
| two: u16, |
| three: u8, |
| } |
| |
| fn main() -> Result<(), scroll::Error> { |
| let bytes: [u8; 7] = [0xde, 0xad, 0xbe, 0xef, 0xfa, 0xce, 0xff]; |
| // Read a single `Data` at offset zero in big-endian byte order. |
| let data: Data = bytes.pread_with(0, BE)?; |
| assert_eq!(data.one, 0xdeadbeef); |
| assert_eq!(data.two, 0xface); |
| assert_eq!(data.three, 0xff); |
| |
| // Write it back to a buffer |
| let mut out: [u8; 7] = [0; 7]; |
| out.pwrite_with(data, 0, BE)?; |
| assert_eq!(bytes, out); |
| Ok(()) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| This feature is **not** enabled by default, you must enable the `derive` feature in Cargo.toml to use it: |
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| ```toml, no_test |
| [dependencies] |
| scroll = { version = "0.10", features = ["derive"] } |
| ``` |
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| # `std::io` API |
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| Scroll can also read/write simple types from a `std::io::Read` or `std::io::Write` implementor. The built-in numeric types are taken care of for you. If you want to read a custom type, you need to implement the `FromCtx` (_how_ to parse) and `SizeWith` (_how_ big the parsed thing will be) traits. You must compile with default features. For example: |
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| ```rust |
| use std::io::Cursor; |
| use scroll::IOread; |
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| fn main() -> Result<(), scroll::Error> { |
| let bytes_ = [0x01,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00, 0xef,0xbe,0x00,0x00,]; |
| let mut bytes = Cursor::new(bytes_); |
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| // this will bump the cursor's Seek |
| let foo = bytes.ioread::<usize>()?; |
| // ..ditto |
| let bar = bytes.ioread::<u32>()?; |
| Ok(()) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| Similarly, we can write to anything that implements `std::io::Write` quite naturally: |
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| ```rust |
| use scroll::{IOwrite, LE, BE}; |
| use std::io::{Write, Cursor}; |
| |
| fn main() -> Result<(), scroll::Error> { |
| let mut bytes = [0x0u8; 10]; |
| let mut cursor = Cursor::new(&mut bytes[..]); |
| cursor.write_all(b"hello")?; |
| cursor.iowrite_with(0xdeadbeef as u32, BE)?; |
| assert_eq!(cursor.into_inner(), [0x68, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f, 0xde, 0xad, 0xbe, 0xef, 0x0]); |
| Ok(()) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| # Advanced Uses |
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| Scroll is designed to be highly configurable - it allows you to implement various context (`Ctx`) sensitive traits, which then grants the implementor _automatic_ uses of the `Pread` and/or `Pwrite` traits. |
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| For example, suppose we have a datatype and we want to specify how to parse or serialize this datatype out of some arbitrary |
| byte buffer. In order to do this, we need to provide a [TryFromCtx](trait.TryFromCtx.html) impl for our datatype. |
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| In particular, if we do this for the `[u8]` target, using the convention `(usize, YourCtx)`, you will automatically get access to |
| calling `pread_with::<YourDatatype>` on arrays of bytes. |
| |
| ```rust |
| use scroll::{ctx, Pread, BE, Endian}; |
| |
| struct Data<'a> { |
| name: &'a str, |
| id: u32, |
| } |
| |
| // note the lifetime specified here |
| impl<'a> ctx::TryFromCtx<'a, Endian> for Data<'a> { |
| type Error = scroll::Error; |
| // and the lifetime annotation on `&'a [u8]` here |
| fn try_from_ctx (src: &'a [u8], endian: Endian) |
| -> Result<(Self, usize), Self::Error> { |
| let offset = &mut 0; |
| let name = src.gread::<&str>(offset)?; |
| let id = src.gread_with(offset, endian)?; |
| Ok((Data { name: name, id: id }, *offset)) |
| } |
| } |
| |
| fn main() -> Result<(), scroll::Error> { |
| let bytes = b"UserName\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04"; |
| let data = bytes.pread_with::<Data>(0, BE)?; |
| assert_eq!(data.id, 0x01020304); |
| assert_eq!(data.name.to_string(), "UserName".to_string()); |
| Ok(()) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| Please see the official documentation, or a simple [example](examples/data_ctx.rs) for more. |
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| # Contributing |
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| Any ideas, thoughts, or contributions are welcome! |