derive-storable: Derive Storable instances with GHC.Generics.

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Derive Storable instances with GHC.Generics. The derived Storable instances have the same alignment as C structs.


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Dependencies base (>=4.8 && <5) [details]
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Author Mateusz Kloczko
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Category Foreign
Home page https://www.github.com/mkloczko/derive-storable/
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Introduction

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The derive-storable package allows you to automatically generate Storable instances for your datatypes. It uses GHC.Generics, which allows the coders to derive certain instances automatically. To derive a (G)Storable instance, the data-type has to:

  • have only one constructor There is now a sumtypes option for data-types with multiple constructors. See Sum types section for more.
  • all fields of the constructor need to be GStorable.
  • implement a Generic instance (derive (Generic))

Sum types

To enable support for sum types, add a -f sumtypes option to cabal new-build or cabal new-configure. The library discerns between sum and non-sum types. Non-sum types have the same memory layout as C structs, while sum types correspond to tagged unions:

struct datatype {
    unsigned char tag;
    union { 
        constructor1 a;
        constructor2 b;
        ...
    } val;
};

Note - while it is possible to have an instance for a self/mutually recursive data-type, using methods for the data-type will result in infinite loop. So there is no support for recursion in data-types.

Note on performance

There are some problems with performance of derived Storable instances. For now there exists a solution in form of GHC Core plugin - derive-storable-plugin.

Usage

Here's an example:

{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}

import Foreign.Storable
import Foreign.Storable.Generic
import Foreign.Ptr
import Foreign.Marshal.Alloc

import Generics.Deriving

data Position = Position {
   x :: Double, 
   y :: Double
} deriving (Show,Read, Generic)

instance GStorable Position

updatePosition :: Ptr Position -> Position -> IO ()
updatePosition ptr pos = poke ptr pos


main = do
    let val = Position 0.0 10.0
    ptr <- malloc :: IO (Ptr Position)      
    putStrLn "Created a ptr with value of"
    putStrLn =<< show <$> peek ptr
    updatePosition ptr val
    putStrLn "And now the value of ptr is:"   
    putStrLn =<< show <$> peek ptr