The goal of this crate is to provide fast, simple and easy binary serialization.

See rust_serialization_benchmark for benchmarks.

use std::borrow::Cow;
use speedy::{Readable, Writable, Endianness};

#[derive(PartialEq, Debug, Readable, Writable)]
enum Enum {
    A,
    B,
    C,
}

#[derive(PartialEq, Debug, Readable, Writable)]
struct Struct< 'a > {
    number: u64,
    string: String,
    vector: Vec< u8 >,
    cow: Cow< 'a, [i64] >,
    float: f32,
    enumeration: Enum
}

fn main() {
    let original = Struct {
        number: 0x12345678ABCDEF00,
        string: "A totally pointless string".to_owned(),
        vector: vec![ 1, 2, 3 ],
        cow: Cow::Borrowed( &[ 4, 5, 6 ] ),
        float: 3.1415,
        enumeration: Enum::C
    };

    let bytes = original.write_to_vec().unwrap();
    let deserialized: Struct =
        Struct::read_from_buffer( &bytes ).unwrap();

    assert_eq!( original, deserialized );
}

Out-of-box the following types are supported:

These are stable and will not change in the future.

Can be used on most standard containers to specify the field's length. Can refer to any of the previous fields.

For example:

use speedy::{Readable, Writable};

#[derive(Readable, Writable)]
struct Struct {
    byte_count: u8,
    #[speedy(length = byte_count / 4)]
    data: Vec< u32 >
}

Before serializing you need to make sure that whatever is set as length is equal to the .len() of the field; if it's not then you will get an error when trying to serialize it.

Setting this attribute changes the serialization format as follows:

Can be used to specify the exact size of the implicit length field of a container as it is read or written.

Possible values:

• u7 (same as u8, but restricted to 7 bits for u64_varint compatibility)
• u8
• u16
• u32 (default)
• u64_varint

Can be used only on u64 fields. Forces the field to be serialized as a varint.

Skips a given field when reading and writing.

If an EOF is encountered when reading this field its value will be set to the default value for its type and the EOF will be ignored.

Specifies a static string of bytes which will be written or has to be present when reading before a given field.

Can be used to specify the exact size of the enum's tag as it is read or written.

Possible values:

• u7 (same as u8, but restricted to 7 bits for u64_varint compatibility)
• u8
• u16
• u32 (default)
• u64_varint

An enum marked with this attribute will not consume its tag value when reading from a stream, nor will it write its own tag when writing.

Specifies a preset tag value to be used for a given enum variant.

Licensed under either of

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

at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.