Type Definition gutenberg_post_parser::Input

type Input<'a> = &'a [InputElement];

Represent the type of a parser input.

The parser does not analyse a String nor a &str, but a slice of bytes &[u8]. One of the consequence is that there is no UTF-8 validation (Rust guarantees that all strings are valid UTF-8 data). There is many arguments for this decision, one of them is that the post format are likely to contain JSON encoded data, and JSON has a weird encoding format for strings (e.g. surrogate pairs), which might not be compatible with UTF-8. Other arguments are mostly related to memory efficiency.