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Package binary

import "encoding/binary"
Overview
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Examples

Overview ?

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Package binary implements translation between numbers and byte sequences and encoding and decoding of varints.

Numbers are translated by reading and writing fixed-size values. A fixed-size value is either a fixed-size arithmetic type (int8, uint8, int16, float32, complex64, ...) or an array or struct containing only fixed-size values.

Varints are a method of encoding integers using one or more bytes; numbers with smaller absolute value take a smaller number of bytes. For a specification, see http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/encoding.html.

Index

Constants
Variables
func PutUvarint(buf []byte, x uint64) int
func PutVarint(buf []byte, x int64) int
func Read(r io.Reader, order ByteOrder, data interface{}) error
func ReadUvarint(r io.ByteReader) (uint64, error)
func ReadVarint(r io.ByteReader) (int64, error)
func Size(v interface{}) int
func Uvarint(buf []byte) (uint64, int)
func Varint(buf []byte) (int64, int)
func Write(w io.Writer, order ByteOrder, data interface{}) error
type ByteOrder

Examples

Read
Write
Write (Multi)

Package files

binary.go varint.go

Constants

const (
    MaxVarintLen16 = 3
    MaxVarintLen32 = 5
    MaxVarintLen64 = 10
)

MaxVarintLenN is the maximum length of a varint-encoded N-bit integer.

Variables

var BigEndian bigEndian

BigEndian is the big-endian implementation of ByteOrder.

var LittleEndian littleEndian

LittleEndian is the little-endian implementation of ByteOrder.

func PutUvarint

func PutUvarint(buf []byte, x uint64) int

PutUvarint encodes a uint64 into buf and returns the number of bytes written. If the buffer is too small, PutUvarint will panic.

func PutVarint

func PutVarint(buf []byte, x int64) int

PutVarint encodes an int64 into buf and returns the number of bytes written. If the buffer is too small, PutVarint will panic.

func Read

func Read(r io.Reader, order ByteOrder, data interface{}) error

Read reads structured binary data from r into data. Data must be a pointer to a fixed-size value or a slice of fixed-size values. Bytes read from r are decoded using the specified byte order and written to successive fields of the data.

? Example

? Example

Code:

var pi float64
b := []byte{0x18, 0x2d, 0x44, 0x54, 0xfb, 0x21, 0x09, 0x40}
buf := bytes.NewBuffer(b)
err := binary.Read(buf, binary.LittleEndian, &pi)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println("binary.Read failed:", err)
}
fmt.Print(pi)

Output:

3.141592653589793

func ReadUvarint

func ReadUvarint(r io.ByteReader) (uint64, error)

ReadUvarint reads an encoded unsigned integer from r and returns it as a uint64.

func ReadVarint

func ReadVarint(r io.ByteReader) (int64, error)

ReadVarint reads an encoded unsigned integer from r and returns it as a uint64.

func Size

func Size(v interface{}) int

Size returns how many bytes Write would generate to encode the value v, which must be a fixed-size value or a slice of fixed-size values, or a pointer to such data.

func Uvarint

func Uvarint(buf []byte) (uint64, int)

Uvarint decodes a uint64 from buf and returns that value and the number of bytes read (> 0). If an error occurred, the value is 0 and the number of bytes n is <= 0 meaning:

	n == 0: buf too small
	n  < 0: value larger than 64 bits (overflow)
             and -n is the number of bytes read

func Varint

func Varint(buf []byte) (int64, int)

Varint decodes an int64 from buf and returns that value and the number of bytes read (> 0). If an error occurred, the value is 0 and the number of bytes n is <= 0 with the following meaning:

	n == 0: buf too small
	n  < 0: value larger than 64 bits (overflow)
             and -n is the number of bytes read

func Write

func Write(w io.Writer, order ByteOrder, data interface{}) error

Write writes the binary representation of data into w. Data must be a fixed-size value or a slice of fixed-size values, or a pointer to such data. Bytes written to w are encoded using the specified byte order and read from successive fields of the data.

? Example

? Example

Code:

buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
var pi float64 = math.Pi
err := binary.Write(buf, binary.LittleEndian, pi)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println("binary.Write failed:", err)
}
fmt.Printf("% x", buf.Bytes())

Output:

18 2d 44 54 fb 21 09 40

? Example (Multi)

? Example (Multi)

Code:

buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
var data = []interface{}{
    uint16(61374),
    int8(-54),
    uint8(254),
}
for _, v := range data {
    err := binary.Write(buf, binary.LittleEndian, v)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("binary.Write failed:", err)
    }
}
fmt.Printf("%x", buf.Bytes())

Output:

beefcafe

type ByteOrder

type ByteOrder interface {
    Uint16([]byte) uint16
    Uint32([]byte) uint32
    Uint64([]byte) uint64
    PutUint16([]byte, uint16)
    PutUint32([]byte, uint32)
    PutUint64([]byte, uint64)
    String() string
}

A ByteOrder specifies how to convert byte sequences into 16-, 32-, or 64-bit unsigned integers.