Crate bincode

Bincode is a crate for encoding and decoding using a tiny binary serialization strategy. Using it, you can easily go from having an object in memory, quickly serialize it to bytes, and then deserialize it back just as fast!

Using Basic Functions

fn main() {
    // The object that we will serialize.
    let target: Option<String>  = Some("hello world".to_string());

    let encoded: Vec<u8> = bincode::serialize(&target).unwrap();
    let decoded: Option<String> = bincode::deserialize(&encoded[..]).unwrap();
    assert_eq!(target, decoded);
}

128bit numbers

Support for i128 and u128 is automatically enabled on Rust toolchains greater than or equal to 1.26.0 and disabled for targets which do not support it

Re-exports

pub use config::DefaultOptions;
pub use config::Options;
pub use de::read::BincodeRead;
pub use de::Deserializer;

Modules

config	bincode uses a Builder-pattern to configure the Serializers and Deserializers in this crate. This means that if you need to customize the behavior of bincode, you should create an instance of the DefaultOptions struct:
de	Deserialize bincode data to a Rust data structure.

Structs

Config	Deprecated A configuration builder whose options Bincode will use while serializing and deserializing.
Serializer	An Serializer that encodes values directly into a Writer.

Enums

ErrorKind

The kind of error that can be produced during a serialization or deserialization.

Functions

config	Deprecated Get a default configuration object.
deserialize	Deserializes a slice of bytes into an instance of T using the default configuration.
deserialize_from	Deserializes an object directly from a Reader using the default configuration.
deserialize_from_custom	Deserializes an object from a custom BincodeReader using the default configuration. It is highly recommended to use deserialize_from unless you need to implement BincodeRead for performance reasons.
options	Get a default configuration object.
serialize	Serializes a serializable object into a Vec of bytes using the default configuration.
serialize_into	Serializes an object directly into a Writer using the default configuration.
serialized_size	Returns the size that an object would be if serialized using Bincode with the default configuration.

Type Definitions

Error	An error that can be produced during (de)serializing.
Result	The result of a serialization or deserialization operation.