module Crowbar::Encoding

Overview

Binary Input and Output Representation Codecs. Provides transparent conversion between human-friendly CLI string encodings (hexadecimal, C-escapes, bitstrings, base64) and raw binary buffers.

Defined in:

crowbar/encoding.cr

Class Method Summary

• .decode(input : String | Bytes | Buffer, format : Format | String | Symbol = Format::Raw) : Buffer

  Decodes an input string, bytes, or buffer into a raw binary Buffer

• .decode_base64(str : String) : Buffer

  Decodes Base64 strings to raw binary Buffer

• .decode_bit(str : String) : Buffer

  Decodes bitstring representations (e.g.

• .decode_escape(str : String) : Buffer

  Decodes C-style escape representations (e.g.

• .decode_hex(str : String) : Buffer

  Decodes hexadecimal string representations (e.g.

• .detect(input : String) : Format

  Auto-detects the most probable encoding of an input string representation

• .encode(buffer : Buffer | Bytes, format : Format | String | Symbol = Format::Raw) : String

  Encodes a binary buffer into the requested string representation

Class Method Detail