Kaitai Struct: visualizer
This is a simple visualizer for Kaitai Struct project.
Kaitai Struct is a declarative language used for 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
files) only once and then can be compiled with
this compiler into source files in one of the supported programming
languages. These modules will include a generated code for a parser
that can read described data structure from a file / stream and give
access to it in a nice, easy-to-comprehend API.
Please refer to documentation in Kaitai Struct project
for details on .ksy
files and general usage patterns.
Downloading and installing
Requirements
From Ruby Gems repository
KS visualizer is written in Ruby and is available as .gem package. Thus, you'll need Ruby (RubyGems package manager comes bundled with Ruby since v1.9) installed on your box, and then you can just run:
gem install kaitai-struct-visualizer
Source code
If you're interested in developing the visualizer itself, you can check out source code in repository:
git clone https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_visualizer
Usage
ksv <binary-file> <ksy-file>... | <rb-file>
Running with Docker
Running image from Docker Hub:
docker run -v "$(pwd):/share" -it kaitai/ksv <binary-file> <ksy-file>
Rebuilding the image from local files:
docker build . --tag docker.io/kaitai/ksv
Licensing
Kaitai Struct visualizer is copyright (C) 2015-2021 Kaitai Project.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Note that it applies only to compiler itself, not .ksy
input files
that one supplies in normal process of compilation, nor to compiler's
output files β that constitutes normal usage process and you obviously
keep copyright to both.