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3 <h1><code>Arbitrary</code></h1>
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5 <p><strong>The trait for generating structured data from arbitrary, unstructured input.</strong></p>
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11## About
12
13The `Arbitrary` crate lets you construct arbitrary instances of a type.
14
15This crate is primarily intended to be combined with a fuzzer like [libFuzzer
16and `cargo-fuzz`](https://github.com/rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz) or
17[AFL](https://github.com/rust-fuzz/afl.rs), and to help you turn the raw,
18untyped byte buffers that they produce into well-typed, valid, structured
19values. This allows you to combine structure-aware test case generation with
20coverage-guided, mutation-based fuzzers.
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22## Documentation
23
24[**Read the API documentation on `docs.rs`!**](https://docs.rs/arbitrary)
25
26## Example
27
28Say you're writing a color conversion library, and you have an `Rgb` struct to
29represent RGB colors. You might want to implement `Arbitrary` for `Rgb` so that
30you could take arbitrary `Rgb` instances in a test function that asserts some
31property (for example, asserting that RGB converted to HSL and converted back to
32RGB always ends up exactly where we started).
33
34### Automatically Deriving `Arbitrary`
35
36Automatically deriving the `Arbitrary` trait is the recommended way to implement
37`Arbitrary` for your types.
38
39Automatically deriving `Arbitrary` requires you to enable the `"derive"` cargo
40feature:
41
42```toml
43# Cargo.toml
44
45[dependencies]
46arbitrary = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
47```
48
49And then you can simply add `#[derive(Arbitrary)]` annotations to your types:
50
51```rust
52// rgb.rs
53
54use arbitrary::Arbitrary;
55
56#[derive(Arbitrary)]
57pub struct Rgb {
58 pub r: u8,
59 pub g: u8,
60 pub b: u8,
61}
62```
63
64### Implementing `Arbitrary` By Hand
65
66Alternatively, you can write an `Arbitrary` implementation by hand:
67
68```rust
69// rgb.rs
70
71use arbitrary::{Arbitrary, Result, Unstructured};
72
73#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug)]
74pub struct Rgb {
75 pub r: u8,
76 pub g: u8,
77 pub b: u8,
78}
79
80impl<'a> Arbitrary<'a> for Rgb {
81 fn arbitrary(u: &mut Unstructured<'a>) -> Result<Self> {
82 let r = u8::arbitrary(u)?;
83 let g = u8::arbitrary(u)?;
84 let b = u8::arbitrary(u)?;
85 Ok(Rgb { r, g, b })
86 }
87}
88```
89
90## License
91
92Licensed under dual MIT or Apache-2.0 at your choice.
93
94Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
95for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license,
96shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
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