Using vest_lib

TODO. This page is not written yet.

Most applications should use the Vest DSL or the ASN.1 frontend, which generate parsers and serializers for you, composed with format combinators in vest_lib. This page will cover the case where you prefer writing them by hand: when a format is too complex to express in the DSL.

Until then, the combinators module documentation lists every primitive and higher-order format with its semantics and vest_dev/src/formats holds some handwritten examples that demonstrate how to use them.