Bencode Parser

A bencode parser written in Rust

Getting Started

use bencode::{BEncode, Options};

let path: PathBuf = PathBuf::from("./examples/big-buck-bunny.torrent");
let bytes = fs::read(path).expect("Couldn't Read File!");
let options: Options = Options::default();
let res: BEncode = BEncode::parse(bytes, options);
println!("Decoded Object: {:?}", res);

What is [Binary String]?

The torrent files have a property called pieces where the SHA-1 hashes of all the pieces of the torrent are stored, which is in the form of a binary string and not UTF-8. Parsing it as a String would make the program unsafe as the String will not be checked before parsing. To prevent this, all the binary strings are used in the binary(Vec<u8>) for itself.