OCobs

Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing for OCaml

Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing (COBS) is a framing method for binary streams and is useful any time you need to send binary datagrams over a stream interface (TCP socket / Serial Port / Etc). In a nutshell, COBS works by stripping all delimiter bytes (usually 0x00) out of a binary packet and places a single delimiter at the end, allowing recipients to simply read from the stream until a delimiter is encountered (effectively allowing a 'readline' like interface for binary data). The encoding/decoding are very fast and encoding is guaranteed to only add 1 + max(1, (len/255)) overhead bytes (making decoding extremely deterministic). For an in-depth breakdown of the algorithm, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_Overhead_Byte_Stuffing

This project was inspired by nim_cobs, whence the above description is copied.