-- Hoogle documentation, generated by Haddock -- See Hoogle, http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/ -- | Write to and read from Strings maintaining internal memory references -- -- Read, Show and Data.Binary do not check for repeated references to the -- same address. As a result, the data is duplicated when serialized. -- This is a waste of space in the filesystem and also a waste of -- serialization time. but the worst consequence is that, when the -- serialized data is read, it allocates multiple copies for the same -- object when referenced multiple times. Because multiple referenced -- data is very typical in a pure language such is Haskell, this means -- that the resulting data loose the beatiful economy of space and -- processing time that referential transparency permits. -- -- Every instance of Show/Read is also a instance of Data.RefSerialize. -- -- This package allows the serialization and deserialization of large -- data structures without duplication of data, with the result of -- optimized performance and memory usage. It is also useful for -- debugging purposes. -- -- There are automatic derived instances for instances of Read/Show. -- Lists of non-chars have its own instance. The deserializer contains a -- subset of Parsec.Token for defining deserializing parsers. -- -- the serialized string has the form: -- --
-- expr( var1, ...varn) where var1=value1,..valn=valueN ---- -- so that the string can be EVALuated. -- -- See demo.hs and tutorial. -- -- in this release: -- --
-- runW applies showp, the serialization parser of the instance Int for the RefSerialize class
--
-- Data.RefSerialize>let x= 5 :: Int
-- Data.RefSerialize>runW $ showp x
-- 5
--
-- every instance of Read and Show is an instance of RefSerialize. for how to construct showp and readp parsers, see the demo.hs
--
-- rshowp is derived from showp, it labels the serialized data with a variable name
--
-- Data.RefSerialize>runW $ rshowp x
-- v8 where {v8= 5; }
--
-- Data.RefSerialize>runW $ rshowp [2::Int,3::Int]
-- v6 where {v6= [ v9, v10]; v9= 2; v10= 3; }
--
-- while showp does a normal show serialization
--
-- Data.RefSerialize>runW $ showp [x,x]
-- [5, 5]
--
-- rshowp variables are serialized memory references: no piece of data that point to the same addrees is serialized but one time
--
-- Data.RefSerialize>runW $ rshowp [x,x]
-- v9 where {v6= 5; v9= [ v6, v6]; }
--
-- this happens recursively
--
-- Data.RefSerialize>let xs= [x,x] in str = runW $ rshowp [xs,xs]
-- Data.RefSerialize>str
-- v8 where {v8= [ v10, v10]; v9= 5; v10= [ v9, v9]; }
--
-- the rshowp serialized data is read with rreadp. The showp serialized data is read by readp
--
-- Data.RefSerialize>let xss= runR rreadp str :: [[Int]]
-- Data.RefSerialize>print xss
-- [[5,5],[5,5]]
--
-- this is the deserialized data
--
-- the deserialized data keep the references!! pointers are restored! That is the whole point!
--
-- Data.RefSerialize>varName xss !! 0 == varName xss !! 1
-- True
--
-- rShow= runW rshowp
-- rRead= runR rreadp
--
-- Data.RefSerialize>rShow x
-- v11 where {v11= 5; }
--
-- In the definition of a referencing parser non referencing parsers can be used and viceversa. Use a referencing parser
-- when the piece of data is being referenced many times inside the serialized data.
--
-- by default the referencing parser is constructed by:
--
-- rshowp= insertVar showp
-- rreadp= readVar readp
-- but this can be redefined. See for example the instance of [] in RefSerialize.hs
--
-- This is an example of a showp parser for a simple data structure.
--
-- data S= S Int Int deriving ( Show, Eq)
--
-- instance Serialize S where
-- showp (S x y)= do
-- xs <- rshowp x -- rshowp parsers can be inside showp parser
-- ys <- rshowp y
-- return $ S ++xs++ ++ys
--
-- readp = do
-- symbol S -- I included a (almost) complete Parsec for deserialization
-- x <- rreadp
-- y <- rreadp
-- return $ S x y
--
-- there is a mix between referencing and no referencing parser here:
--
-- Data.RefSerialize>putStrLn $ runW $ showp $ S x x
-- S v23 v23 where {v23= 5; }
--
module Data.RefSerialize
class Serialize c
showp :: (Serialize c) => c -> ST String
readp :: (Serialize c) => ST c
rshowp :: (Serialize c) => c -> ST String
rreadp :: (Serialize c) => ST c
-- | use the rshowp parser to serialize the object rShow c= runW $
-- rshowp c
rShow :: (Serialize c) => c -> String
-- | deserialize trough the rreadp parser rRead str= runR rreadp $
-- str
rRead :: (Serialize c) => String -> c
-- | insert a variable at this position. The expression value is inserted
-- the where part if it is not already created. If the address of this
-- object being parsed correspond with an address already parsed and it
-- is in the where section, then the same variable name is used runW
-- showp (1::Int) -> 1 runW (insertVar showp) (1::Int) -> v1
-- where { v1=1} runW (insertVar showp) [(1::Int) ,1] -> [v1.v1] where
-- { v1=1} This is useful when the object is referenced many times
insertVar :: (a -> ST String) -> a -> ST String
-- | deserialize a variable serialized with insertVar. Memory references
-- are restored
readVar :: (Serialize c) => ST c -> ST c
varName :: a -> String
-- | deserialize the string with the parser
runR :: ST a -> String -> a
-- | serialize x with the parser
runW :: ST String -> String
readHexp :: (Num a, Integral a) => ST a
showHexp :: (Num a, Integral a) => a -> ST String
instance [incoherent] (Show a, Read a) => Serialize a
instance [incoherent] (Serialize a) => Serialize [a]
instance [incoherent] Serialize String