toad

Crates.iotoad
lib.rstoad
version1.0.0-beta.9
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created_at2022-10-08 17:50:41.865667
updated_at2023-07-21 04:17:01.596489
descriptionUniversal implementation of the CoAP networking protocol
homepagehttps://github.com/clov-coffee/toad/toad
repositoryhttps://github.com/clov-coffee/toad/toad
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toad

toad is a Rust CoAP implementation that aims to be:

  • Platform-independent
  • Extensible
  • Approachable

CoAP

CoAP is an application-level network protocol that copies the semantics of HTTP to an environment conducive to constrained devices. (weak hardware, small battery capacity, etc.)

This means that you can write and run two-way RESTful communication between devices very similarly to the networking semantics you are most likely very familiar with.

Similarities to HTTP

CoAP has the same verbs and many of the same semantics as HTTP;

Differences from HTTP

  • CoAP customarily sits on top of UDP (however the standard is in the process of being adapted to also run on TCP, like HTTP)
  • Because UDP is a "connectionless" protocol, it offers no guarantee of "conversation" between traditional client and server roles. All the UDP transport layer gives you is a method to listen for messages thrown at you, and to throw messages at someone. Owing to this, CoAP machines are expected to perform both client and server roles (or more accurately, sender and receiver roles)
  • While classes of status codes are the same (Success 2xx -> 2.xx, Client error 4xx -> 4.xx, Server error 5xx -> 5.xx), the semantics of the individual response codes differ.

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

Contribution

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.

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