Documentation coming soon. Geared towards netcode, so all types are serialized in network-byte-order. Why not just use serde? Serde has basic types, such as strings, which are variable-length and require some sort of format to serialize. This crate chooses to not force a particular protocol on the user, so if you have a variable-length type, you will need to implement a serialization protocol on it yourself. Sample usage: ```rust use std::io::{self, Cursor, Read, Write}; use netpack::{PackError, Packable, Unpackable, unpack, unpack_from}; // Sample struct with a sub-struct that also implements Packable/Unpackable #[derive(Debug, PartialEq)] struct Sample { num: i128, sample: SubSample, b: bool, } // Implement Packable for our struct impl Packable for Sample { type Error = io::Error; // Error packables use by default fn pack_into(&self, stream: &mut impl Write) -> Result<(), Self::Error> { self.num.pack_into(stream)?; self.sample.pack_into(stream)?; self.b.pack_into(stream)?; Ok(()) } } // Implement Unpackable for our struct impl Unpackable for Sample { type Error = PackError; // Error unpackables use by default fn unpack_from(rdr: &mut impl Read) -> Result { Ok(Self { num: unpack_from(rdr)?, sample: unpack_from(rdr)?, b: unpack_from(rdr)?, }) } } // Embedded structure that's also packable/unpackable #[derive(Debug, PartialEq)] struct SubSample { num: i32, arr: [u16; 5], float: f32, } impl Packable for SubSample { type Error = io::Error; // Error packables use by default fn pack_into(&self, stream: &mut impl Write) -> Result<(), Self::Error> { self.num.pack_into(stream)?; self.arr.pack_into(stream)?; self.float.pack_into(stream)?; Ok(()) } } impl Unpackable for SubSample { type Error = PackError; // Error unpackables use by default fn unpack_from(rdr: &mut impl Read) -> Result { Ok(Self { num: unpack_from(rdr)?, arr: unpack_from(rdr)?, float: unpack_from(rdr)?, }) } } fn main() { let sub = SubSample { num: 20, arr: [10, 100, 1000, 5, 0], float: 0.3 }; let sample = Sample { num: -5, sample: sub, b: true }; let mut v = Vec::new(); // Create a Write stream for the vec let mut c = Cursor::new(&mut v); // Serialize our struct into the stream sample.pack_into(&mut c).unwrap(); // Serialized data is now in the vec assert_eq!(&v, &vec![ // Sample::num 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 251, // SubSample::num 0, 0, 0, 20, // SubSample::arr 0, 10, 0, 100, 3, 232, 0, 5, 0, 0, // SubSample::float 62, 153, 153, 154, // Sample::b 1 ]); // Can also return a vec let mut v = sample.pack().unwrap(); // Serialized data is now in the vec assert_eq!(&v, &vec![255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 251, 0, 0, 0, 20, 0, 10, 0, 100, 3, 232, 0, 5, 0, 0, 62, 153, 153, 154, 1]); // Extra data simulating a buffer with more than just our struct v.push(0xff); // Unpacking is just as simple: let mut c = Cursor::new(&mut v); let new_sample: Sample = unpack_from(&mut c).unwrap(); assert_eq!(&new_sample, &sample); // Or from a slice: let (new_sample, rest): (Sample, &[u8]) = unpack(&v).unwrap(); assert_eq!(&new_sample, &sample); // rest contains remaining bytes that weren't part of our struct assert_eq!(&rest, &[0xff]); } ```