Deserialization usage example

[maufl]

Hey, I would like to use this library to analyse the blockchain. I already have a downloaded copy, using the standard bitcoind. I assumed that I could use bitcoin::network::serialize::deserialize to deserialize a blk*.dat file into a Block struct. Is that correct? When I try to do that, the deserializer allocates an extremely large Vec<u8> and crashes because it's out of memory.

[apoelstra]

No, the blk*.dat files are not stored in the same format as blocks are in the Bitcoin network protocol. You cannot parse them with rust-bitcoin.

Thank you for reporting this memory-DoS issue though!

[maufl]

Thanks for your fast response! I'll look for another way then. If you want you can close this issue.

[apoelstra]

Fixed in apoelstra@cdb452f