About

This is one of a few bencode implementations available for rust. Though there are alternatives (see below), implementing bencode is both fun and a good learning experience. It also never hurts to have one more alternative.

Alternatives

• bendy by P3KI.
• serde-bencode by Toby Padilla.
• rust-bencode by Arjan Topolovec.

There are more, but some are no longer maintained.

Usage

Add the library as a dependency to Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
bende = "0.5.4"
serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }

Example

use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct Person {
    name: String,
    age: u8,
    is_employed: bool,
}

let jerry = Person {
    name: "Jerry Smith".to_string(),
    age: 50,
    is_employed: false,
};

let bytes = bende::encode(&jerry).unwrap();
assert_eq!(bende::decode::<Person>(&bytes).unwrap(), jerry);

Unsupported Types

The types that are not supported are:

• f32
• f64

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Notes

• Both variants of Option<_> (Some and None) are supported by the decoder, but the encoder only supports Some.
• Keys in a key-value object must be strings, otherwise an error is returned.
• Map and struct entries are sorted lexicographically by their key before they are encoded.
• If you run into trouble encoding/decoding raw bytes, eg: &[u8] or Vec<u8> then use this crate.
• The codebase is relatively small (~2000 lines), easily digestible and filled with comments. If you're a first timer, you'll have a jolly time making your first contribution.