Sorry, no, I'm deserializing data from the Bitcoin p2p network. There's a lot of odd quirks (mostly, the integer widths are fairly arbitrary and sometimes variable-width) which wouldn't be suitable for a general purpose [de]serializing routine.
Andrew On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:56:59PM -0700, Erick Tryzelaar wrote: > Slightly off topic, what kind of deserialization are you working on? If > it's a generic deserializer, I'm putting together a prototype for > https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/22 in my > https://github.com/erickt/rust-serde repository. Maybe we can collaborate. > > On Friday, May 30, 2014, Andrew Poelstra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Oh, I sent my earlier message prematurely. The problem here is that I > > want to move the original iterator forward by the appropriate amount > > (not one further), since I'm passing a iter.by_ref() to each of my > > deserialization routines in turn. > > > > It seems that if I use .peekable() I either move the original iterator > > one position too far, or not at all, depending on how exactly I do it. > > > > I could refactor to make my deserialization techniques require a > > Peekable, but this isn't logically necessary because I can accomplish my > > goal by manually counting iterations, so it would be an abstraction > > leak. > > > > > > > > Andrew > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:57:50AM -0700, Steven Fackler wrote: > > > It may not fulfill your exact use case, but you can get this in a way: > > > > > > let mut foo = bar.iter().peekable(); > > > { > > > let mut limit_foo = foo.by_ref().limit(50); > > > for baz in limit_foo { > > > ... > > > } > > > } > > > if foo.is_empty() { > > > ... > > > } > > > > > > Steven Fackler > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Evan G <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Instead of using a for statement, try looping over a custom iterator > > that > > > > returns an Enum. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Andrew Poelstra < > > > > [email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi guys, > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> Take is an iterator adaptor which cuts off the contained iterator > > after > > > >> some number of elements, always returning None. > > > >> > > > >> I find that I need to detect whether I'm getting None from a Take > > > >> iterator because I've read all of the elements I expected or because > > the > > > >> underlying iterator ran dry unexpectedly. (Specifically, I'm parsing > > > >> some data from the network and want to detect an early EOM.) > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> This seems like it might be only me, so I'm posing this to the list: > > if > > > >> there was a function Take::is_done(&self) -> bool, which returned > > whether > > > >> or not the Take had returned as many elements as it could, would that > > be > > > >> generally useful? > > > >> > > > >> I'm happy to submit a PR but want to check that this is appropriate > > for > > > >> the standard library. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> Thanks > > > >> > > > >> Andrew > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> Andrew Poelstra > > > >> Mathematics Department, University of Texas at Austin > > > >> Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net > > > >> Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew > > > >> > > > >> "If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick > > Cheney > > > >> worries about, I would have finished high school." --Edward Snowden > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> Rust-dev mailing list > > > >> [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Rust-dev mailing list > > > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Andrew Poelstra > > Mathematics Department, University of Texas at Austin > > Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net > > Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew > > > > "If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney > > worries about, I would have finished high school." --Edward Snowden > > > > -- Andrew Poelstra Mathematics Department, University of Texas at Austin Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew "If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school." --Edward Snowden
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