BinaryReader

Installation

def deps do
 [
 {:binary_reader, "~> 0.1.0"}
 ]
end

Usage

Normal Usage

iex> {:ok, pid} = BinaryReader.start_link(<<65, 66, 67, 68, 2, 0, 0, 0>>)
{:ok, #PID<0.0.0>}
iex> BinaryReader.read_string(pid)
"ABCD"
iex> BinaryReader.remains_byte_size(pid)
4
iex> BinaryReader.read_int32(pid)
2
iex> BinaryReader.stop(pid)
:ok

Extend BinaryReader

defmodule SpecialBinaryReader do
 use BinaryReader
 def special_read(pid) do
 length = read_int32(pid)
 read_bytes(pid, length)
 end
end
iex> {:ok, pid} = SpecialBinaryReader.start_link(<<.....>>)
iex> SpecialBinaryReader.special_read(pid)