michalbe/binascii

Port of binascii library from Python

binascii by @michalbe

Port of binascii library from Python

What

The binascii module contains a number of methods to convert between binary and various ASCII-encoded binary representations.

More: python binascii docs For now only two methods are implemented - hexlify with b2a_hex alias and 'unhexlify' (called also a2b_hex).

How to use:

npm install binascii

then:

var ba = require('binascii');

console.log(ba.hexlify('A')); // result: '41'
console.log(ba.unhexlify('377abcaf271c')); // result: '7z¼¯'\u001c'

API

• hexlify - Return the hexadecimal representation of the binary data. Every byte of data is converted into the corresponding 2-digit hex representation.
• unhexlify - Return the binary data represented by the hexadecimal string. This function is the inverse of hexlify.
• b2a_hex - alias of hexlify
• a2b_hex - alias of unhexlify

To Do

original library supports also:

• a2b_uu
• b2a_uu
• a2b_base64
• b2a_base64
• a2b_qp
• b2a_qp
• a2b_hqx
• rledecode_hqx
• rlecode_hqx
• b2a_hqx
• crc_hqx
• crc32

Interested in implementing any of those? Check binascii docs for more info on how those methods should work