Module serialize

Support code for encoding and decoding types.

Macros

direct_serialize_impls 🔒

peel 🔒

tuple 🔒

Constants

BYTE_STR_SENTINEL 🔒

For byte strings there are no bytes that cannot occur. Just use this value as a best-effort sentinel. There is no validation skipped so the potential for badness is lower than in the STR_SENTINEL case.

STR_SENTINEL 🔒

A byte that cannot occur in UTF8 sequences. Used to mark the end of a string. This way we can skip validation and still be relatively sure that deserialization did not desynchronize.

Traits

Decodable

Trait for types that can be deserialized

Decoder

This current does not support f32 nor f64, as they’re not needed in any serialized data structures. That could be changed, but consider whether it really makes sense to store floating-point values at all. (If you need it, revert https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/109984.)

Encodable

Trait for types that can be serialized

Encoder

A note about error handling.