lobaro/slip

Implementation of SLIP (RFC-1055) and slipmux in Go

slip & slipmux

Implementation of SLIP (rfc-1055) in GoLang

In addition to the basic SLIP reader and writer there is also a SlipMux implementation, that enables sending different packet types like CoAP and Diagnostic messages over serial line. This is implemented backward compatible to SLIP implementations which support only IP packets.

If needed, further packet types can be implemented by the user of the library.

Install

go get -u github.com/Lobaro/slip

Usage (SLIP)

import github.com/Lobaro/slip

Read Packets

	data := []byte{1, 2, 3, slip.END}
	reader := slip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
	packet, isPrefix, err := reader.ReadPacket()

	// packet == [1, 2, 3]
	// isPrefix == false
	// err == io.EOF

Write Packets

	buf := &bytes.Buffer{}
	writer := slip.NewWriter(buf)
	err := writer.WritePacket([]byte{1, 2, 3})

	// buf.Bytes() ==  [END, 1, 2, 3, END]

slip's Issues

Name the Reader and Writer Encoder and Decoder

It seems to be a better fit to call the Structs and Methods Encode/Decode and support Readers and Writers to do the encoding/decoding.

It also makes sense to support the interfaces defined in the encoding package of go.