bencode

bencode (pronounced like Bee-encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data.

About opencave

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Install

go get github.com/opencave/bencode

Usage

bencode.Marshal take a object and returns a byte slice. bencode.Unmarshal take a byte slice and bind data pointer.

import "github.com/opencave/bencode"

func main() {
	type FileInfo struct {
		Name       string  `bencode:"name"`
		Size       int     `bencode:"size"`
		FloatValue float64 // will be ignored, bencode not support float64 datatype
	}

	type Torrent struct {
		Announce string     `bencode:"announce"`
		Files    []FileInfo `bencode:"files"`
		Created  int64      `bencode:"-"`
	}

	tor := Torrent{
		Announce: "http://tracker",
		Files: []FileInfo{
			{Name: "file1.txt", Size: 1024, FloatValue: 1.0},
		},
	}
	data, err := Marshal(tor)
	if err != nil {
	  // do something
	}
	fmt.Println(string(data)) // d8:announce14:http://tracker5:filesld4:name9:file1.txt4:sizei1024eeee

	var decoded Torrent
	err = Unmarshal(data, &decoded)
	if err != nil {
	  // do something
	}
	fmt.Printf("announce: %s\n", tor.Announce) // announce: http://tracker
}

License

openHoles is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Refer to LICENSE for more details.