fog-human-json: human-readable fog-pack values ============================================== This crate provides functions to go back and forth between fog-pack and JSON, making it relatively easy for users to view pretty-printed fog-pack values and edit them with existing JSON tooling. A common complaint with binary data formats like fog-pack is that reading them is painful, and lowering that pain with JSON is exactly what this crate is for. This is *not* a crate for turning regular JSON into fog-pack data. It uses a number of special string prefixes to encode fog-pack types in JSON, which can interfere with arbitrary JSON-to-fog conversions. So, what does this actually do for conversion? Well, it takes each fog-pack type and either directly converts it to a corresponding JSON type, or it specially encodes it in a string that starts with `$fog-`. So a 32-bit floating point value could be specifically encoded as `$fog-F32: 1.23`. The full list of types is: - Str: A regular string. This is just prepended so fog-pack strings that start with `$fog-` won't get caught by the parser. - Bin: Encodes the binary data as Base64 using the "standard" encoding (bonus symbols of `+/`, no padding used, padding is accepted when parsing). - F32Hex / F64Hex: Encodes a binary32/64 IEEE floating-point value in big-endian hex. The fog-to-json process should only do this when writing out a NaN or Infinity. - F32 / F64 / Int: Prints a standard JSON Number, but includes the type information. This done by telling the converter to do it specifically, by a user adding type information, or by the converter for any F32 value (as `serde_json` will always use F64 for floating-point). - Time: Encodes the time as a RFC 3339 formatted string. - Hash / Identity / StreamId / LockId: Encodes the corresponding primitive as a base58 string (in the Bitcoin base58 style). - DataLockbox / IdentityLockbox / StreamLockbox / LockLockbox: Encodes the corresponding lockbox as Base64 data, just like with the "Bin" type. That covers conversion between fog-pack Values and JSON values, but not Documents and Entries. Those are converted into JSON objects with the following key-value pairs: - Documents: - "schema": If present, a `$fog-Hash:HASH` with the schema. - "signer": If present, a `$fog-Identity:IDENTITY` with the signer's Identity. - "compression": If not present, uses default compression. If present and null, no compression is used. If set to a number between 0-255, uses that as the compression level. - "data": The document content. Must be present. - Entries: - "parent": Parent document's hash. - "key": Entry's string key. - "signer": If present, holds the signer's Identity. - "compression": If not present, uses default compression. If present and null, no compression is used. If set to a number between 0 & 255, uses that as the compression level. - "data": The entry content. Must be present. When going from JSON to a Document or Entry, if there's a "signer" specified, it will attempt to pull a matching IdentityKey from a provided Vault and use that to reproduce the signature. If it can't, then the conversion will fail.