rkyv 0.5.0

Zero-copy deserialization framework for Rust
Documentation
rkyv (*archive*) is a zero-copy deserialization framework for Rust.

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## API Documentation


- [rkyv]https://docs.rs/rkyv, the core library
- [rkyv_dyn]https://docs.rs/rkyv_dyn, which adds trait object support to rkyv
- [rkyv_typename]https://docs.rs/rkyv_typename, a type naming library

## Book


- The [rkyv book]https://djkoloski.github.io/rkyv covers the motivation and architecture of rkyv

## Sister Crates:


- [bytecheck]https://github.com/djkoloski/bytecheck, which rkyv uses for validation
- [ptr_meta]https://github.com/djkoloski/ptr_meta, which rkyv uses for pointer manipulation

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## rkyv in action


```rust
use rkyv::{
    archived_root,
    de::deserializers::AllocDeserializer,
    ser::{serializers::WriteSerializer, Serializer},
    AlignedVec, Archive, Deserialize, Serialize,
};

#[derive(Archive, Deserialize, Serialize, Debug, PartialEq)]

struct Test {
    int: u8,
    string: String,
    option: Option<Vec<i32>>,
}

let value = Test {
    int: 42,
    string: "hello world".to_string(),
    option: Some(vec![1, 2, 3, 4]),
};

let mut serializer = WriteSerializer::new(AlignedVec::new());
serializer
    .serialize_value(&value)
    .expect("failed to serialize value");
let buf = serializer.into_inner();

let archived = unsafe { archived_root::<Test>(buf.as_ref()) };
assert_eq!(archived.int, value.int);
assert_eq!(archived.string, value.string);
assert_eq!(archived.option, value.option);

let mut deserializer = AllocDeserializer;
let deserialized = archived
    .deserialize(&mut deserializer)
    .expect("failed to deserialize value");
assert_eq!(deserialized, value);
```