| bstr |
| ==== |
| This crate provides extension traits for `&[u8]` and `Vec<u8>` that enable |
| their use as byte strings, where byte strings are _conventionally_ UTF-8. This |
| differs from the standard library's `String` and `str` types in that they are |
| not required to be valid UTF-8, but may be fully or partially valid UTF-8. |
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| ### Documentation |
| |
| https://docs.rs/bstr |
| |
| |
| ### When should I use byte strings? |
| |
| See this part of the documentation for more details: |
| <https://docs.rs/bstr/1.*/bstr/#when-should-i-use-byte-strings>. |
| |
| The short story is that byte strings are useful when it is inconvenient or |
| incorrect to require valid UTF-8. |
| |
| |
| ### Usage |
| |
| `cargo add bstr` |
| |
| ### Examples |
| |
| The following two examples exhibit both the API features of byte strings and |
| the I/O convenience functions provided for reading line-by-line quickly. |
| |
| This first example simply shows how to efficiently iterate over lines in stdin, |
| and print out lines containing a particular substring: |
| |
| ```rust |
| use std::{error::Error, io::{self, Write}}; |
| use bstr::{ByteSlice, io::BufReadExt}; |
| |
| fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> { |
| let stdin = io::stdin(); |
| let mut stdout = io::BufWriter::new(io::stdout()); |
| |
| stdin.lock().for_byte_line_with_terminator(|line| { |
| if line.contains_str("Dimension") { |
| stdout.write_all(line)?; |
| } |
| Ok(true) |
| })?; |
| Ok(()) |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| This example shows how to count all of the words (Unicode-aware) in stdin, |
| line-by-line: |
| |
| ```rust |
| use std::{error::Error, io}; |
| use bstr::{ByteSlice, io::BufReadExt}; |
| |
| fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> { |
| let stdin = io::stdin(); |
| let mut words = 0; |
| stdin.lock().for_byte_line_with_terminator(|line| { |
| words += line.words().count(); |
| Ok(true) |
| })?; |
| println!("{}", words); |
| Ok(()) |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| This example shows how to convert a stream on stdin to uppercase without |
| performing UTF-8 validation _and_ amortizing allocation. On standard ASCII |
| text, this is quite a bit faster than what you can (easily) do with standard |
| library APIs. (N.B. Any invalid UTF-8 bytes are passed through unchanged.) |
| |
| ```rust |
| use std::{error::Error, io::{self, Write}}; |
| use bstr::{ByteSlice, io::BufReadExt}; |
| |
| fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> { |
| let stdin = io::stdin(); |
| let mut stdout = io::BufWriter::new(io::stdout()); |
| |
| let mut upper = vec![]; |
| stdin.lock().for_byte_line_with_terminator(|line| { |
| upper.clear(); |
| line.to_uppercase_into(&mut upper); |
| stdout.write_all(&upper)?; |
| Ok(true) |
| })?; |
| Ok(()) |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| This example shows how to extract the first 10 visual characters (as grapheme |
| clusters) from each line, where invalid UTF-8 sequences are generally treated |
| as a single character and are passed through correctly: |
| |
| ```rust |
| use std::{error::Error, io::{self, Write}}; |
| use bstr::{ByteSlice, io::BufReadExt}; |
| |
| fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> { |
| let stdin = io::stdin(); |
| let mut stdout = io::BufWriter::new(io::stdout()); |
| |
| stdin.lock().for_byte_line_with_terminator(|line| { |
| let end = line |
| .grapheme_indices() |
| .map(|(_, end, _)| end) |
| .take(10) |
| .last() |
| .unwrap_or(line.len()); |
| stdout.write_all(line[..end].trim_end())?; |
| stdout.write_all(b"\n")?; |
| Ok(true) |
| })?; |
| Ok(()) |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| |
| ### Cargo features |
| |
| This crates comes with a few features that control standard library, serde and |
| Unicode support. |
| |
| * `std` - **Enabled** by default. This provides APIs that require the standard |
| library, such as `Vec<u8>` and `PathBuf`. Enabling this feature also enables |
| the `alloc` feature. |
| * `alloc` - **Enabled** by default. This provides APIs that require allocations |
| via the `alloc` crate, such as `Vec<u8>`. |
| * `unicode` - **Enabled** by default. This provides APIs that require sizable |
| Unicode data compiled into the binary. This includes, but is not limited to, |
| grapheme/word/sentence segmenters. When this is disabled, basic support such |
| as UTF-8 decoding is still included. Note that currently, enabling this |
| feature also requires enabling the `std` feature. It is expected that this |
| limitation will be lifted at some point. |
| * `serde` - Enables implementations of serde traits for `BStr`, and also |
| `BString` when `alloc` is enabled. |
| |
| |
| ### Minimum Rust version policy |
| |
| This crate's minimum supported `rustc` version (MSRV) is `1.65`. |
| |
| In general, this crate will be conservative with respect to the minimum |
| supported version of Rust. MSRV may be bumped in minor version releases. |
| |
| |
| ### Future work |
| |
| Since it is plausible that some of the types in this crate might end up in your |
| public API (e.g., `BStr` and `BString`), we will commit to being very |
| conservative with respect to new major version releases. It's difficult to say |
| precisely how conservative, but unless there is a major issue with the `1.0` |
| release, I wouldn't expect a `2.0` release to come out any sooner than some |
| period of years. |
| |
| A large part of the API surface area was taken from the standard library, so |
| from an API design perspective, a good portion of this crate should be on solid |
| ground. The main differences from the standard library are in how the various |
| substring search routines work. The standard library provides generic |
| infrastructure for supporting different types of searches with a single method, |
| where as this library prefers to define new methods for each type of search and |
| drop the generic infrastructure. |
| |
| Some _probable_ future considerations for APIs include, but are not limited to: |
| |
| * Unicode normalization. |
| * More sophisticated support for dealing with Unicode case, perhaps by |
| combining the use cases supported by [`caseless`](https://docs.rs/caseless) |
| and [`unicase`](https://docs.rs/unicase). |
| |
| Here are some examples that are _probably_ out of scope for this crate: |
| |
| * Regular expressions. |
| * Unicode collation. |
| |
| The exact scope isn't quite clear, but I expect we can iterate on it. |
| |
| In general, as stated below, this crate brings lots of related APIs together |
| into a single crate while simultaneously attempting to keep the total number of |
| dependencies low. Indeed, every dependency of `bstr`, except for `memchr`, is |
| optional. |
| |
| |
| ### High level motivation |
| |
| Strictly speaking, the `bstr` crate provides very little that can't already be |
| achieved with the standard library `Vec<u8>`/`&[u8]` APIs and the ecosystem of |
| library crates. For example: |
| |
| * The standard library's |
| [`Utf8Error`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/str/struct.Utf8Error.html) can be |
| used for incremental lossy decoding of `&[u8]`. |
| * The |
| [`unicode-segmentation`](https://unicode-rs.github.io/unicode-segmentation/unicode_segmentation/index.html) |
| crate can be used for iterating over graphemes (or words), but is only |
| implemented for `&str` types. One could use `Utf8Error` above to implement |
| grapheme iteration with the same semantics as what `bstr` provides (automatic |
| Unicode replacement codepoint substitution). |
| * The [`twoway`](https://docs.rs/twoway) crate can be used for fast substring |
| searching on `&[u8]`. |
| |
| So why create `bstr`? Part of the point of the `bstr` crate is to provide a |
| uniform API of coupled components instead of relying on users to piece together |
| loosely coupled components from the crate ecosystem. For example, if you wanted |
| to perform a search and replace in a `Vec<u8>`, then writing the code to do |
| that with the `twoway` crate is not that difficult, but it's still additional |
| glue code you have to write. This work adds up depending on what you're doing. |
| Consider, for example, trimming and splitting, along with their different |
| variants. |
| |
| In other words, `bstr` is partially a way of pushing back against the |
| micro-crate ecosystem that appears to be evolving. Namely, it is a goal of |
| `bstr` to keep its dependency list lightweight. For example, `serde` is an |
| optional dependency because there is no feasible alternative. In service of |
| this philosophy, currently, the only required dependency of `bstr` is `memchr`. |
| |
| |
| ### License |
| |
| This project is licensed under either of |
| |
| * Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or |
| https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) |
| * MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or |
| https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) |
| |
| at your option. |
| |
| The data in `src/unicode/data/` is licensed under the Unicode License Agreement |
| ([LICENSE-UNICODE](https://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#License)), although |
| this data is only used in tests. |