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README.md
tor-bytes
Utilities to decode/encode things into bytes.
Overview
The tor-bytes crate is part of
Arti, a project to
implement Tor in Rust.
Other crates in Arti use it to build and handle all the byte-encoded
objects from the Tor protocol. For textual directory items, see
the [tor-netdoc] crate.
This crate is generally useful for encoding and decoding byte-oriented formats that are not regular enough to qualify for serde, and not complex enough to need a full meta-language. It is probably not suitable for handling anything bigger than a few kilobytes in size.
Alternatives
The Reader/Writer traits in std::io are more appropriate for operations that can fail because of some IO problem. This crate can't handle that: it is for handling things that are already in memory.
TODO: Look into using the "bytes" crate more here.
TODO: The "untrusted" crate has similar goals to our [Reader],
but takes more steps to make sure it can never panic. Perhaps we
should see if we can learn any tricks from it.
TODO: Do we really want to keep Reader as a struct and
Writer as a trait?
Contents and concepts
This crate is structured around four key types:
- [
Reader]: A view of a byte slice, from which data can be decoded. - [
Writer]: Trait to represent a growable buffer of bytes. (Vec<u8>and [bytes::BytesMut] implement this.) - [
Writeable]: Trait for an object that can be encoded onto a [Writer] - [
Readable]: Trait for an object that can be decoded from a [Reader].
Every object you want to encode or decode should implement
[Writeable] or [Readable] respectively.
Once you implement these traits, you can use Reader and Writer to handle your type, and other types that are built around it.
License: MIT OR Apache-2.0