wire: A Go repository from dajoh

wire

Wire provides an easy and flexible way to serialize and deserialize Go structures to binary. It has support for arrays, variable length slices and strings, embedded structures, and even slices and arrays of embedded structures.

Wire serializes in little endian by default, but this can be overridden with the use of struct field tags or by using the WithOrder functions.

The following tags are supported:

big tells wire to (de)serialize the value in big endian
little tells wire to (de)serialize the value in little endian
nullterm tells wire to (de)serialize the string with a null terminator
sizeof=$ tells wire that this field contains the length of another field

type Example struct {
  Cmd         uint8
  UsernameLen uint16 `wire:"sizeof=Username,big"`
  Username    string
  Password    string `wire:"nullterm"`
}

// Note that the value passed in must be a pointer as UsernameLen is modified!
wire.Encode(writer, &Example{Cmd: 1, Username: "dajoh", Password: "x"})

dajoh/wire

wire