After installing, zcbor can be invoked on the command line as zcbor
, or included as a module via import zcbor
.
This package has 2 uses:
- Schema-based validation and conversion of YAML/JSON/CBOR data.
- Generating C code that decodes/encodes and validates CBOR data according to a schema.
The schema language used by zcbor is CDDL which allows creating very advanced and detailed schemas.
The PyPi package comes with a C library which is needed by the generated code. This library is not run by the zcbor package, but in the user's project that includes zcbor-generated code. If zcbor is asked to generate a cmake file, the file will reference the C library, and if asked to copy sources, zcbor will copy these library files to the given location.
The C library also functions as a standalone CBOR C library, and is used in the Zephyr RTOS.
Please visit the Github repository for more information about this Python package, and the C library.