A robust C library for reading and writing Bittorrent bencode data.
Apache license v2.0.
extern be_node_t *be_decode(const char *inBuf, size_t inBufLen, size_t *readAmount); extern ssize_t be_encode(const be_node_t *node, char *outBuf, size_t outBufLen); extern void be_free(be_node_t *node); extern void be_dump(be_node_t *node); - when
be_decode()fails, it returnsNULLand seterrnoto:ENOMEM: memory allocation failedEINVAL: invalid bencode dataELOOP: max depth reached (default: 10)
be_encode(node, NULL, 0)returns the size of output buffer to be allocated. You can malloc and callbe_encode()again with alloc'ed buffer.
$ make && make test --(snip)-- { "test": [ "test"] , "announce": "udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80" , "creation date": 1327049827 , "info": { "length": 20 , "name": "sample.txt" , "piece length": 65536 , "pieces": "..R....x...d.......1" , "private": 1}} All tests passed! Thank you for reading :-)
