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+ [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/m4b/scroll.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/m4b/scroll)
+## Scroll - cast some magic
+
+```text
+ _______________
+ ()==( (@==()
+ '______________'|
+ | |
+ | ἀρετή |
+ __)_____________|
+ ()==( (@==()
+ '--------------'
+
+```
+
+### Documentation
+
+https://docs.rs/scroll
+
+### Usage
+
+Add to your `Cargo.toml`
+
+```toml, no_test
+[dependencies]
+scroll = "0.10"
+```
+
+### Overview
+
+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.
+
+Because self is immutable, _**all** reads can be performed in parallel_ and hence are trivially parallelizable.
+
+A simple example demonstrates its flexibility:
+
+```rust
+use scroll::{ctx, Pread, LE};
+
+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!
+
+ // 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)?;
+
+ // 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);
+
+ // Scroll is extensible: as long as the type implements `TryWithCtx`, then you can read your type out of the byte array!
+
+ // 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(())
+}
+```
+
+### Deriving `Pread` and `Pwrite`
+
+Scroll implements a custom derive that can provide `Pread` and `Pwrite` implementations for your structs.
+
+```rust
+use scroll::{Pread, Pwrite, BE};
+
+#[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(())
+}
+```
+
+This feature is **not** enabled by default, you must enable the `derive` feature in Cargo.toml to use it:
+
+```toml, no_test
+[dependencies]
+scroll = { version = "0.10", features = ["derive"] }
+```
+
+# `std::io` API
+
+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:
+
+```rust
+use std::io::Cursor;
+use scroll::IOread;
+
+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_);
+
+ // this will bump the cursor's Seek
+ let foo = bytes.ioread::<usize>()?;
+ // ..ditto
+ let bar = bytes.ioread::<u32>()?;
+ Ok(())
+}
+```
+
+Similarly, we can write to anything that implements `std::io::Write` quite naturally:
+
+```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(())
+}
+```
+
+# Advanced Uses
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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(())
+}
+```
+
+Please see the official documentation, or a simple [example](examples/data_ctx.rs) for more.
+
+# Contributing
+
+Any ideas, thoughts, or contributions are welcome!