Binary Codable

Binary Codable provides Swift Codable-like interfaces for converting types to and from binary representations.

Binary Codable is optimized for reading and writing blocks of binary data as a stream of bytes. This makes Binary Codable useful for network protocols, binary file formats, and other forms of tightly-packed binary information.

This is not an official Google product.

• Features
• Known usage in the wild
• Introduction
• Cookbook
  • Decode a binary file from disk
  • Encode an object as binary data
  • Decode an object from a socket
  • Decode a null-terminated string
  • Decode a string with a maximum length
  • Encode a null-terminated string
  • Decode a sequence of bytes
  • Encode a sequence of bytes
• Supported technologies
• License

Features

• Encode from Swift types to Data.
• Decode from Data to Swift types.
• Efficiently encode/decode large blocks of arbitrary data.
• Lazy decoding (read bytes from a source only as they’re needed).
• Encode and decode fixed-width integer types.
• Encode and decode strings with or without terminators.
• Cap decoding containers to a maximum length.

Known usage in the wild

• BinaryCookies: Read and write Apple’s .binarycookies files.
• MySqlConnector: A pure Swift implementation of the MySql client/server protocol.

Supported technologies

• iOS 13.0+ / macOS 10.15+
• Xcode 11.5+
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Swift 5.2

License

BinaryCodable is released under the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE for more details.