This is a simple library for reading and writing bencoded data.
Bencode is a simple data serialization format used by the popular BitTorrent P2P file sharing system.
It contains only four data types, namely:
- byte strings
- integers
- lists
- dictionaries
Encoding objects is as simple as calling #bencode on them:
"foo bar".bencode # => "7:foo bar"
42.bencode # => "i42e"
[1, 2, 3].bencode # => "li1ei2ei3ee"
{"foo" => 1, "bar" => -10}.bencode # => "d3:bari-10e3:fooi1ee"Decoding a complete data stream is as easy as calling BEncode.load(data).
Decoding a data stream in chunks works as follows:
irb(main):007:0> stream = BEncode::Parser.new(StringIO.new "d3:foo3:bared3:baz3:quxe")
=> #<BEncode::Parser:0x007fbe6b008c88 @stream=#<StringIO:0x007fbe6b008cd8>>
irb(main):008:0> stream.parse!
=> {"foo"=>"bar"}
irb(main):009:0> stream.parse!
=> {"baz"=>"qux"}Released under the MIT license.
- Daniel Schierbeck (dasch)
- Mike Hodgson (mikehodgson)
- Andrew Danforth
- Eric Himmelreich
- Allen Madsen (blatyo)
- Ian Levesque (ianlevesque)
- Dirk Geurs (Dirklectisch)
- Xinyue Lu (msg7086)
