{"repo":"kaitai-io/kaitai_struct","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct","clone":"git clone https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct.git","description":"Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby / Rust","language":"Shell","stars":4655,"topics":["reverse-engineering","protocol-analyser","file-format","declarative-language","ruby","java","javascript","python","csharp","golang"],"license":null,"category":"security-tools","readme_excerpt":"Kaitai Struct [!NOTE] If you want to make changes to the project, do not fork this kaitai struct repository. Instead, choose the component you want to modify in the file tree above and fork that individual component instead. This is an umbrella repository, containing the components only as submodules to make it easier to check out the entire project. Unless you want to modify this README, it is not the repo where you can make edits. What is Kaitai Struct? Kaitai Struct (KS) is a declarative language used to describe various binary data structures, laid out in files or in memory: i.e. binary file formats, network stream packet formats, etc. The main idea is that a particular format is described in Kaitai Struct language ( .ksy file) only once and then can be compiled with kaitai-struct-compiler (or ksc for short) into source files in one of the supported programming languages. These modules will include generated code for a parser that can read the described data structure from a file or stream and provide access to it in a nice, easy-to-comprehend API. What is it used for? Have you ever found yourself writing repetitive, error-prone and hard-to-debug code that reads binary data structures from file / network stream and somehow represents them in memory for easier access? Kaitai Struct tries to make this job easier — you only have to describe the binary format once and then everybody can use it from their programming languages — cross-language, cross-platform. Kaitai Struct in","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/kaitai-io","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}