UTF-8-encoded string: Go parsing library

UTF-8 is a popular character encoding scheme that allows to represent strings as sequence of code points defined in Unicode standard. Its features are:

  • variable width (i.e. one code point might be represented by 1 to 4 bytes)
  • backward compatiblity with ASCII
  • basic validity checking (and thus distinguishing from other legacy 8-bit encodings)
  • maintaining sort order of codepoints if sorted as a byte array

WARNING: For the vast majority of practical purposes of format definitions in Kaitai Struct, you'd likely NOT want to use this and rather just use type: str with encoding: utf-8. That will use native string implementations, which are most likely more efficient and will give you native language strings, rather than an array of individual codepoints. This format definition is provided mostly for educational / research purposes.

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License: CC0-1.0

References

This page hosts a formal specification of UTF-8-encoded string using Kaitai Struct. This specification can be automatically translated into a variety of programming languages to get a parsing library.

Go source code to parse UTF-8-encoded string

utf8_string.go

// Code generated by kaitai-struct-compiler from a .ksy source file. DO NOT EDIT.

import (
	"github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_go_runtime/kaitai"
	"io"
)


/**
 * UTF-8 is a popular character encoding scheme that allows to
 * represent strings as sequence of code points defined in Unicode
 * standard. Its features are:
 * 
 * * variable width (i.e. one code point might be represented by 1 to 4
 *   bytes)
 * * backward compatiblity with ASCII
 * * basic validity checking (and thus distinguishing from other legacy
 *   8-bit encodings)
 * * maintaining sort order of codepoints if sorted as a byte array
 * 
 * WARNING: For the vast majority of practical purposes of format
 * definitions in Kaitai Struct, you'd likely NOT want to use this and
 * rather just use `type: str` with `encoding: utf-8`. That will use
 * native string implementations, which are most likely more efficient
 * and will give you native language strings, rather than an array of
 * individual codepoints.  This format definition is provided mostly
 * for educational / research purposes.
 */
type Utf8String struct {
	Codepoints []*Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint
	_io *kaitai.Stream
	_root *Utf8String
	_parent interface{}
}
func NewUtf8String() *Utf8String {
	return &Utf8String{
	}
}

func (this *Utf8String) Read(io *kaitai.Stream, parent interface{}, root *Utf8String) (err error) {
	this._io = io
	this._parent = parent
	this._root = root

	for i := 1;; i++ {
		tmp1, err := this._io.EOF()
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		if tmp1 {
			break
		}
		tmp3, err := this._io.Pos()
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		tmp2 := NewUtf8String_Utf8Codepoint(tmp3)
		err = tmp2.Read(this._io, this, this._root)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		this.Codepoints = append(this.Codepoints, tmp2)
	}
	return err
}
type Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint struct {
	Bytes []byte
	Ofs uint64
	_io *kaitai.Stream
	_root *Utf8String
	_parent *Utf8String
	_f_raw1 bool
	raw1 int
	_f_lenBytes bool
	lenBytes int
	_f_raw3 bool
	raw3 int
	_f_valueAsInt bool
	valueAsInt int
	_f_raw0 bool
	raw0 int
	_f_byte0 bool
	byte0 uint8
	_f_raw2 bool
	raw2 int
}
func NewUtf8String_Utf8Codepoint(ofs uint64) *Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint {
	return &Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint{
		Ofs: ofs,
	}
}

func (this *Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint) Read(io *kaitai.Stream, parent *Utf8String, root *Utf8String) (err error) {
	this._io = io
	this._parent = parent
	this._root = root

	tmp4, err := this.LenBytes()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	tmp5, err := this._io.ReadBytes(int(tmp4))
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	tmp5 = tmp5
	this.Bytes = tmp5
	return err
}
func (this *Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint) Raw1() (v int, err error) {
	if (this._f_raw1) {
		return this.raw1, nil
	}
	tmp6, err := this.LenBytes()
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	if (tmp6 >= 2) {
		this.raw1 = int((this.Bytes[1] & 63))
	}
	this._f_raw1 = true
	return this.raw1, nil
}
func (this *Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint) LenBytes() (v int, err error) {
	if (this._f_lenBytes) {
		return this.lenBytes, nil
	}
	var tmp7 int8;
	tmp8, err := this.Byte0()
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	if ((tmp8 & 128) == 0) {
		tmp7 = 1
	} else {
		var tmp9 int8;
		tmp10, err := this.Byte0()
		if err != nil {
			return 0, err
		}
		if ((tmp10 & 224) == 192) {
			tmp9 = 2
		} else {
			var tmp11 int8;
			tmp12, err := this.Byte0()
			if err != nil {
				return 0, err
			}
			if ((tmp12 & 240) == 224) {
				tmp11 = 3
			} else {
				var tmp13 int8;
				tmp14, err := this.Byte0()
				if err != nil {
					return 0, err
				}
				if ((tmp14 & 248) == 240) {
					tmp13 = 4
				} else {
					tmp13 = -1
				}
				tmp11 = tmp13
			}
			tmp9 = tmp11
		}
		tmp7 = tmp9
	}
	this.lenBytes = int(tmp7)
	this._f_lenBytes = true
	return this.lenBytes, nil
}
func (this *Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint) Raw3() (v int, err error) {
	if (this._f_raw3) {
		return this.raw3, nil
	}
	tmp15, err := this.LenBytes()
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	if (tmp15 >= 4) {
		this.raw3 = int((this.Bytes[3] & 63))
	}
	this._f_raw3 = true
	return this.raw3, nil
}
func (this *Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint) ValueAsInt() (v int, err error) {
	if (this._f_valueAsInt) {
		return this.valueAsInt, nil
	}
	var tmp16 int;
	tmp17, err := this.LenBytes()
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	if (tmp17 == 1) {
		tmp18, err := this.Raw0()
		if err != nil {
			return 0, err
		}
		tmp16 = tmp18
	} else {
		var tmp19 int;
		tmp20, err := this.LenBytes()
		if err != nil {
			return 0, err
		}
		if (tmp20 == 2) {
			tmp21, err := this.Raw0()
			if err != nil {
				return 0, err
			}
			tmp22, err := this.Raw1()
			if err != nil {
				return 0, err
			}
			tmp19 = ((tmp21 << 6) | tmp22)
		} else {
			var tmp23 int;
			tmp24, err := this.LenBytes()
			if err != nil {
				return 0, err
			}
			if (tmp24 == 3) {
				tmp25, err := this.Raw0()
				if err != nil {
					return 0, err
				}
				tmp26, err := this.Raw1()
				if err != nil {
					return 0, err
				}
				tmp27, err := this.Raw2()
				if err != nil {
					return 0, err
				}
				tmp23 = (((tmp25 << 12) | (tmp26 << 6)) | tmp27)
			} else {
				var tmp28 int;
				tmp29, err := this.LenBytes()
				if err != nil {
					return 0, err
				}
				if (tmp29 == 4) {
					tmp30, err := this.Raw0()
					if err != nil {
						return 0, err
					}
					tmp31, err := this.Raw1()
					if err != nil {
						return 0, err
					}
					tmp32, err := this.Raw2()
					if err != nil {
						return 0, err
					}
					tmp33, err := this.Raw3()
					if err != nil {
						return 0, err
					}
					tmp28 = ((((tmp30 << 18) | (tmp31 << 12)) | (tmp32 << 6)) | tmp33)
				} else {
					tmp28 = -1
				}
				tmp23 = tmp28
			}
			tmp19 = tmp23
		}
		tmp16 = tmp19
	}
	this.valueAsInt = int(tmp16)
	this._f_valueAsInt = true
	return this.valueAsInt, nil
}
func (this *Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint) Raw0() (v int, err error) {
	if (this._f_raw0) {
		return this.raw0, nil
	}
	var tmp34 int8;
	tmp35, err := this.LenBytes()
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	if (tmp35 == 1) {
		tmp34 = 127
	} else {
		var tmp36 int8;
		tmp37, err := this.LenBytes()
		if err != nil {
			return 0, err
		}
		if (tmp37 == 2) {
			tmp36 = 31
		} else {
			var tmp38 int8;
			tmp39, err := this.LenBytes()
			if err != nil {
				return 0, err
			}
			if (tmp39 == 3) {
				tmp38 = 15
			} else {
				var tmp40 int8;
				tmp41, err := this.LenBytes()
				if err != nil {
					return 0, err
				}
				if (tmp41 == 4) {
					tmp40 = 7
				} else {
					tmp40 = 0
				}
				tmp38 = tmp40
			}
			tmp36 = tmp38
		}
		tmp34 = tmp36
	}
	this.raw0 = int((this.Bytes[0] & tmp34))
	this._f_raw0 = true
	return this.raw0, nil
}
func (this *Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint) Byte0() (v uint8, err error) {
	if (this._f_byte0) {
		return this.byte0, nil
	}
	_pos, err := this._io.Pos()
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	_, err = this._io.Seek(int64(this.Ofs), io.SeekStart)
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	tmp42, err := this._io.ReadU1()
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	this.byte0 = tmp42
	_, err = this._io.Seek(_pos, io.SeekStart)
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	this._f_byte0 = true
	this._f_byte0 = true
	return this.byte0, nil
}
func (this *Utf8String_Utf8Codepoint) Raw2() (v int, err error) {
	if (this._f_raw2) {
		return this.raw2, nil
	}
	tmp43, err := this.LenBytes()
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	if (tmp43 >= 3) {
		this.raw2 = int((this.Bytes[2] & 63))
	}
	this._f_raw2 = true
	return this.raw2, nil
}