async-serial

Lightweight async serial port adapter — bridges [serialport] with [async-io].

Quickstart

use async_serial::AsyncSerialPortBuilder as _;

let mut port = serialport::new("/dev/ttyUSB0", 9_600)
    .open_async()?;

// Async read — won't block the executor
let mut buf = [0u8; 256];
let n = port.read(&mut buf).await?;

How It Works

serialport::TTYPort / serialport::COMPort implement Read + Write but those are blocking calls. async-io provides an Async<T> wrapper that makes any IoSafe + AsFd type non-blocking via the reactor.

This crate provides:

• IoSafeAdapter<T> — a newtype that supplies the missing IoSafe and AsFd impls
• AsyncSerialPort — a type alias for Async<IoSafeAdapter<platform port>>
• AsyncSerialPortBuilder — an extension trait that adds .open_async() to SerialPortBuilder

Platform Support

Platform	Backend type
Unix	TTYPort
Windows	COMPort

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0