Introduction

KonFoo is a Python package for de-serializing byte streams into a meaningful representation.

KonFoo helps you to deserialize a byte stream retrievable through a byte stream provider to any kind of data source into a meaningful representation by just declaring how the parts of a byte stream should be represented, respectively mapped to fields.

You can store the representation into an .ini file to analyse the byte stream data.

The built-in deserialize hook deserialize(buffer=bytes(), index=Index(), **option) available for all container and field classes allows you to adapt even expand or declare the representation during the de-serialization process on the fly.

The built-in deserializer provided by the pointer class (called through the Pointer.read_from() method) is able to follow even nested absolute or relative pointers to retrieve the byte stream from the byte stream provider necessary for its referenced data object and to de-serialize (map) it.

After de-serializing the byte stream provided by the byte stream provider the built-in serializer provided also by the pointer class (called through the Pointer.write_to() method) is able to transfer the manipulated values of any container or field in the representation back to the byte stream provider to write it into its data source.