scodec-bits

Provides persistent datatypes for working with bits and bytes.

Design Constraints

No dependencies on other libraries in order to be applicable to as many projects as possible.

Administrative

This project is licensed under a 3-clause BSD license.

The scodec mailing list contains release announcements and is generally a good place to go for help. Also consider using the scodec tag on StackOverflow.

People are expected to follow the Typelevel Code of Conduct when discussing scodec on the Github page, Gitter channel, mailing list, or other venues.

Concerns or issues can be sent to Michael Pilquist (mpilquist@gmail.com) or to Typelevel.

Introduction

There are two fundamental data structures provided:

Both datatypes provide collection like functionality, although neither directly implement the Scala collection library traits. Both are implemented as binary trees where each node is either a leaf node containing bits/bytes or is an inner node containing an operation on other trees (e.g., append). As a result, many operations are implemented in logarithmic time with respect to the depth of the tree.

Both strict and lazy constructors are provided. Of particular interest are the methods that work with Java NIO sources like java.nio.channels.ReadableByteChannel and java.nio.channels.FileChannel, which allow efficient, lazy access and manipulation of bits and bytes from a variety of sources.

Hexadecimal and binary string literals are supported via the hex and bin string interpolators. For example:

val x: ByteVector = hex"deadbeef"
val y: BitVector = bin"00101101010010101"

Base conversions to and from strings are supported. Binary, hexadecimal, and base 64 conversions are supported. Each have a default alphabet but support alternative alphabets as well as user defined alphabets.

For more information, see the API documentation.

For a combinator based approach to encoding values to/from binary, see the companion project scodec.

Getting Binaries

See the releases page on the website.

Building