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1.. _module-pw_bytes:
2
3---------
4pw_bytes
5---------
6pw_bytes is a collection of utilities for manipulating binary data.
7
8Compatibility
9=============
10C++17
11
12Dependencies
13============
14* ``pw_preprocessor``
15* ``pw_status``
16* ``pw_span``
17
18Features
19========
20
21pw_bytes/array.h
22----------------
23Functions for working with byte arrays, primarily for building fixed-size byte
24arrays at compile time.
25
26pw_bytes/byte_builder.h
27-----------------------
28.. cpp:class:: ByteBuilder
29
30  ``ByteBuilder`` is a class that facilitates building or reading arrays of
31  bytes in a fixed-size buffer. ByteBuilder handles reading and writing integers
32  with varying endianness.
33
34.. cpp:class:: template <size_t kMaxSize> ByteBuffer
35
36  ``ByteBuilder`` with an internally allocated buffer.
37
38Size report: using ByteBuffer
39^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
40.. include:: byte_builder_size_report
41
42pw_bytes/endian.h
43-----------------
44Functions for converting the endianness of integral values.
45
46pw_bytes/units.h
47----------------
48Constants, functions and user-defined literals for specifying a number of bytes
49in powers of two, as defined by IEC 60027-2 A.2 and ISO/IEC 80000:13-2008.
50
51The supported suffixes include:
52 * ``_B``   for bytes     (1024^0)
53 * ``_KiB`` for kibibytes (1024^1)
54 * ``_MiB`` for mibibytes (1024^2)
55 * ``_GiB`` for gibibytes (1024^3)
56 * ``_TiB`` for tebibytes (1024^4)
57 * ``_PiB`` for pebibytes (1024^5)
58 * ``_EiB`` for exbibytes (1024^6)
59
60In order to use these you must use a using namespace directive, for example:
61
62.. code-block:: cpp
63
64  #include "pw_bytes/units.h"
65
66  using namespace pw::bytes::unit_literals;
67
68  constexpr size_t kRandomBufferSizeBytes = 1_MiB + 42_KiB;
69
70In some cases, the use of user-defined literals is not permitted because of the
71required using namespace directive. One example of this is in header files,
72where it is undesirable to pollute the namespace. For this situation, there are
73also similar functions:
74
75.. code-block:: cpp
76
77  #include "pw_bytes/units.h"
78
79  constexpr size_t kBufferSizeBytes = pw::bytes::MiB(1) + pw::bytes::KiB(42);
80
81Zephyr
82======
83To enable ``pw_bytes`` for Zephyr add ``CONFIG_PIGWEED_BYTES=y`` to the
84project's configuration.
85