IPv6 network packet: C++11/STL parsing library

KS implementation details

License: CC0-1.0

Minimal Kaitai Struct required: 0.8

This page hosts a formal specification of IPv6 network packet using Kaitai Struct. This specification can be automatically translated into a variety of programming languages to get a parsing library.

Usage

Runtime library

All parsing code for C++11/STL generated by Kaitai Struct depends on the C++/STL runtime library. You have to install it before you can parse data.

For C++, the easiest way is to clone the runtime library sources and build them along with your project.

Code

Using Kaitai Struct in C++/STL usually consists of 3 steps.

We need to create an STL input stream (std::istream). One can open local file for that, or use existing std::string or char* buffer.

#include <fstream>

std::ifstream is("path/to/local/file.bin", std::ifstream::binary);

#include <sstream>

std::istringstream is(str);

#include <sstream>

const char buf[] = { ... };
std::string str(buf, sizeof buf);
std::istringstream is(str);

We need to wrap our input stream into Kaitai stream:

#include "kaitai/kaitaistream.h"

kaitai::kstream ks(&is);

And finally, we can invoke the parsing:
```
ipv6_packet_t data(&ks);
```

After that, one can get various attributes from the structure by invoking getter methods like:

data.version() // => get version

C++11/STL source code to parse IPv6 network packet

ipv6_packet.h

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#pragma once

// This is a generated file! Please edit source .ksy file and use kaitai-struct-compiler to rebuild

#include "kaitai/kaitaistruct.h"
#include <stdint.h>
#include <memory>
#include "protocol_body.h"

#if KAITAI_STRUCT_VERSION < 9000L
#error "Incompatible Kaitai Struct C++/STL API: version 0.9 or later is required"
#endif
class protocol_body_t;

class ipv6_packet_t : public kaitai::kstruct {

public:

    ipv6_packet_t(kaitai::kstream* p__io, kaitai::kstruct* p__parent = nullptr, ipv6_packet_t* p__root = nullptr);

private:
    void _read();
    void _clean_up();

public:
    ~ipv6_packet_t();

private:
    uint64_t m_version;
    uint64_t m_traffic_class;
    uint64_t m_flow_label;
    uint16_t m_payload_length;
    uint8_t m_next_header_type;
    uint8_t m_hop_limit;
    std::string m_src_ipv6_addr;
    std::string m_dst_ipv6_addr;
    std::unique_ptr<protocol_body_t> m_next_header;
    std::string m_rest;
    ipv6_packet_t* m__root;
    kaitai::kstruct* m__parent;

public:
    uint64_t version() const { return m_version; }
    uint64_t traffic_class() const { return m_traffic_class; }
    uint64_t flow_label() const { return m_flow_label; }
    uint16_t payload_length() const { return m_payload_length; }
    uint8_t next_header_type() const { return m_next_header_type; }
    uint8_t hop_limit() const { return m_hop_limit; }
    std::string src_ipv6_addr() const { return m_src_ipv6_addr; }
    std::string dst_ipv6_addr() const { return m_dst_ipv6_addr; }
    protocol_body_t* next_header() const { return m_next_header.get(); }
    std::string rest() const { return m_rest; }
    ipv6_packet_t* _root() const { return m__root; }
    kaitai::kstruct* _parent() const { return m__parent; }
};

ipv6_packet.cpp

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// This is a generated file! Please edit source .ksy file and use kaitai-struct-compiler to rebuild

#include "ipv6_packet.h"

ipv6_packet_t::ipv6_packet_t(kaitai::kstream* p__io, kaitai::kstruct* p__parent, ipv6_packet_t* p__root) : kaitai::kstruct(p__io) {
    m__parent = p__parent;
    m__root = this;
    m_next_header = nullptr;
    _read();
}

void ipv6_packet_t::_read() {
    m_version = m__io->read_bits_int_be(4);
    m_traffic_class = m__io->read_bits_int_be(8);
    m_flow_label = m__io->read_bits_int_be(20);
    m__io->align_to_byte();
    m_payload_length = m__io->read_u2be();
    m_next_header_type = m__io->read_u1();
    m_hop_limit = m__io->read_u1();
    m_src_ipv6_addr = m__io->read_bytes(16);
    m_dst_ipv6_addr = m__io->read_bytes(16);
    m_next_header = std::unique_ptr<protocol_body_t>(new protocol_body_t(next_header_type(), m__io));
    m_rest = m__io->read_bytes_full();
}

ipv6_packet_t::~ipv6_packet_t() {
    _clean_up();
}

void ipv6_packet_t::_clean_up() {
}