destruct

0.0.1 • Public • Published

(De) Struct

Easily unpack C Structs and binary buffers

Based off the unpack function in Perl, and inspired by prustat by Brendan Gregg. There were other modules that claimed to do the same functionality, but most of them were too poorly documented with the source code almost unreadable, while the others were overcomplicated and didn't support a simple format string.

Install

Install locally to use as a module

npm install destruct

Usage

as a module

var destruct = require('destruct');

Known Limitations

This module does not handle all data types, it has only been tested on SmartOS, and was built for making it easier to extend the proc Node module by @dshaw.

Functions

destruct.unpack(fmt, buf, [pos])

Unpack a given binary buffer with the given format starting from pos (default 0)

Example

var destruct = require('destruct'),
    fs = require('fs'),
    fmt = 'iiiiiiiiiiIiiiiSSa8a8a8Z16Z80iiIIaa3iiiiii',
    file = '/proc/self/psinfo';
 
fs.readFile(file, function(err, buf) {
  console.log(destruct.unpack(fmt, buf));
});

yields

[ 33554432,
  3,
  714,
  18456,
  714,
  18456,
  2011,
  2011,
  2300,
  2300,
  0,
  14536,
  9736,
  0,
  1572868,
  11,
  3,
  <Buffer 64 41 f9 4f 3b fe 6c 1a>,
  <Buffer 00 00 00 00 35 d5 31 0b>,
  <Buffer 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00>,
  'node',
  'node ./psinfo.js',
  0,
  2,
  134511788,
  134511800,
  <Buffer 01>,
  <Buffer 00 00 00>,
  674523,
  3,
  0,
  0,
  29,
  19167112 ]

License

MIT Licensed

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