ProtoDef

This is a node.js module to simplify defining, reading and writing binary blobs, whether they be internet protocols or files.

Installing

npm install ProtoDef

Usage

See example

Documentation

See the language independent ProtoDef specification.

• api.md documents the exposed functions and classes
• datatypes.md documents the default datatypes provided by Protodef.
• newDatatypes.md explains how to create new datatypes for protodef
• history.md is the releases history

Projects Using ProtoDef

• minecraft-protocol defines a protocol.json by minecraft version and use ProtoDef to serialize and parse packets
  • the protocol.json files are stored in minecraft-data
  • and they can be visualized automatically in this doc
• prismarine-nbt defined a nbt.json to parse and serialize the NBT format
• mineflayer uses ProtoDef to parse plugin messages
• minecraft-protocol-forge parses and serialize forge plugin messages
• node-raknet describe the raknet protocol in a protocol.json and uses ProtoDef to read it
• minecraft-classic-protocol defines the classic minecraft protocol with ProtoDef
• pocket-minecraft-protocol defines the minecraft pocket edition protocol