This is a Rust library for validating data structures against a CDDL document.

Note: This library is fairly new, and may still contain significant bugs, ommissions, or unstable interfaces.

The goal of this library is to make individual encodings (like CBOR or JSON) easy to validate.

Some of the ways this library differs from other implementations:

• An "Intermediate Validation Tree" is constructed from the CDDL AST; this removes some of the CDDL syntax detail resulting in a simplified tree that can be more easily validated. The IVT is constructed almost entirely of Node elements, allowing recursive validation.

• Validation is performed by first translating the incoming data into a generic tree form, so the bulk of the validation code is completely agnostic to the serialization format.

An example, validating CBOR-encoded data against a CDDL schema: ```rust use cddlcat::validatecbor_bytes; use serde::Serialize;

[derive(Serialize)]

struct PersonStruct { name: String, age: u32, }

let input = PersonStruct { name: "Bob".tostring(), age: 43, }; let cborbytes = serdecbor::tovec(&input).unwrap(); let cddlinput = "thing = {name: tstr, age: int}"; validatecborbytes("thing", cddlinput, &cbor_bytes).unwrap(); ```