Readme for tagged-binary-0.2.0.0
tagged-binary
Very minimal (Haskell) library providing tools for serializing and decoding data into
ByteString
tagged with information about its type, inspired by Cloud Haskell
and distributed-process.
Intended for use by libraries and frameworks in distributed contexts, such as distributed computation between native servers and communication between native servers and ghcjs/various front-ends, for behavior similar to the polymorphic communication channels of Cloud Haskell and distributed-process; servers can send tagged data, and clients can choose to selectively accept, ignore or queue incoming messages depending on their types.
For basic encoding and decoding, only Data.Binary.Tagged
should be
necessary. Data.Binary.Tagged.Internal
is exported in case you need it.
Quick example
> let x = encodeTagged (1 :: Int)
> decodeTagged x :: Maybe Bool
Nothing
> decodeTagged x :: Maybe Int
Just 1
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2014 Justin Le