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Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary structures
I can't claim credit for the API and reverse engineering of the data model (https://github.com/0Liam/smm2-documentation), standing on the shoulder of giants here. But the original level viewer was a windows app (there are since a handful of web ports of it); it seemed like an opportunity to learn a few technologies (Rust, WASM). There were a lot of interesting problems, i'll do a proper write-up one day.
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Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
https://github.com/vstinner/hachoir/blob/main/hachoir/subfil...
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Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary structures
I contributed a number of file formats a few years ago (and attempted numerous others) but ran into a number of problems with certain file formats:
1. It's not possible to read from the file until a multiple byte termination sequence is detected. [1]
2. You can't read sections of a file where the termination condition is the presence of a sequence of bytes denoting the next unrelated section of the file (and you don't want to consume/read these bytes) [2]
3. The WebIDE at the time couldn't handle very large file format specifications such as Photoshop (PSD) [3]
4. Files containing compressed or encrypted sections require a compression/encryption algorithm to be hardcoded into Kaitai struct libraries for each programming language it can output to.
The WebIDE I particularly liked as it makes it easy to get started and share results. I also liked how Kaitai Struct allows easy definition of constraints (simple ones at least) into the file format specification so that you can say "this section of the file shall have a size not exceeding header.length * 2 bytes".
Some alternative binary file format specification attempts for those interested in seeing alternatives, each with their own set of problems/pros/cons:
1. 010 Editor [4]
2. Synalysis [5]
3. hachoir [6]
4. DFDL [7]
[1] https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct/issues/158
[2] https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct/issues/156
[3] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davidhicks/kaitai_struct_f...
[4] https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/repository/templates/
[5] https://github.com/synalysis/Grammars
[6] https://github.com/vstinner/hachoir/tree/main/hachoir/parser
[7] https://github.com/DFDLSchemas/
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PyWhat: Identify Anything
Another one sort of related is hachoir, and specifically the hachoir-metadata script: https://github.com/vstinner/hachoir
What are some alternatives?
binrw - A Rust crate for helping parse and rebuild binary data using ✨macro magic✨.
FortniteReplayDecompressor - Read Fortnite replay files
usaddress - :us: a python library for parsing unstructured United States address strings into address components
restruct - Rich binary (de)serialization library for Golang
fuckitjs - The Original Javascript Error Steamroller
nom - Rust parser combinator framework
pyWhat - 🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is! 🧙♀️
Grammars - Grammars for Synalyze It! and Hexinator
probablepeople - :family: a python library for parsing unstructured western names into name components.
Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby
chardet - Python character encoding detector