Bencode

bencode is a golang package for bencoding and bdecoding data from and from to equivalents.

Bencode (pronounced like Ben-code) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data. Wikipedia

Installation

go get github.com/ArunMurugan78/bencode

Quick Start

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/ArunMurugan78/bencode"
)

func main() {
	data := map[string]interface{}{"name": "rose", "list": []interface{}{"pickachu", "anakin", "NYC", 78}}

	encodedData, _ := bencode.Encode(data)

	fmt.Println(string(encodedData)) // d4:listl8:pickachu6:anakin3:NYCi78ee4:name4:rosee

	decodedData, _ := bencode.Parse(bytes.NewReader(encodedData))

	fmt.Println(decodedData) // map[list:[pickachu anakin NYC 78] name:rose]
}

Invalid Data?

To be able to encode a given data into bencode, it's data type has to be one of the below.

Type	Description
int	Can be any one of the int and uint variants.
string	UTF-8 encoded strings.
[]interface{}	The slice can hold any one of the valid data type.
map[string]interface{}	The key has to be a string and the value can be any one of the valid data type.

License

The project is licensed under the MIT license.