Parsing function for binary data (struct)

[nomalord]

I would love it if a parser for binary data (basically struct parser) would be added😁

I personally used the struct library in python a lot so I'm most comfortable with it, and would love it if the implementation followed a similar syntax:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/struct.html#format-characters

Something important to note is the ability to parse a struct of a fixed length and a repeating struct.
Thanks in advance 😁😁😁

[pront]

Hey @nomalord, this is a neat idea. Can you provide an example of how you would use this? Maybe it will inspire someone from the community to pick this up.

[nomalord]

Of course 😃

In some of our systems we have legacy components that send via tcp/multicast messages that are encoded as c structs.

Since these components are so old and currently there are no plans to change them, we are stuck with very minimal logs and unhelpful metrics.

We want to be able to parse the messages and export them out as metrics for us to scrape later🤯