codec: First-class record construction and bidirectional serialization

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Tired of writing complementary parseJSON/toJSON, peek/poke or Binary get/put functions?

codec provides easy bidirectional serialization of plain Haskell records in any Applicative context. All you need to do is provide a de/serializer for every record field in any order you like, and you get a de/serializer for the whole structure. The type system ensures that you provide every record exactly once. It also includes a library for general record construction in an Applicative context, of which creating codecs is just one application.

JSON!

userCodec :: JSONCodec User
userCodec = obj "user object" $
User
  $>> f_username      >-< "user"
  >>> f_userEmail     >-< "email"
  >>> f_userLanguages >-< "languages"
  >>> f_userReferrer  >-< opt "referrer"

instance FromJSON User where
  parseJSON = parseVal userCodec

instance ToJSON User where
  toJSON = produceVal userCodec

Bit fields!

ipv4Codec :: BinaryCodec IPv4
ipv4Codec = toBytes $
  IPv4
    $>> f_version         >-< word8 4
    >>> f_ihl             >-< word8 4
    >>> f_dscp            >-< word8 6
    >>> f_ecn             >-< word8 2
    >>> f_totalLength     >-< word16be 16
    >>> f_identification  >-< word16be 16
    >>> f_flags           >-< word8 3
    >>> f_fragmentOffset  >-< word16be 13
    >>> f_timeToLive      >-< word8 8
    >>> f_protocol        >-< word8 8
    >>> f_headerChecksum  >-< word16be 16
    >>> f_sourceIP        >-< word32be 32
    >>> f_destIP          >-< word32be 32

instance Binary IPv4 where
  get = parse ipv4Codec
  put = produce ipv4Codec

Storable!

timeSpecCodec :: ForeignCodec TimeSpec
timeSpecCodec =
  TimeSpec
    $>> f_seconds     >-< field (#offset struct timespec, tv_sec)  cInt
    >>> f_nanoseconds >-< field (#offset struct timespec, tv_nsec) cInt

instance Storable TimeSpec where
  peek = peekWith timeSpecCodec
  poke = pokeWith timeSpecCodec
  ...

All of these examples use the same types and logic for constructing Codecs, and it's very easy to create Codecs for any parsing/serialization library.

See Data.Codec for an introduction.

Modules

[Last Documentation]

  • Control
    • Lens
      • Control.Lens.Codec
  • Data
    • Aeson
      • Data.Aeson.Codec
    • Binary
      • Bits
        • Data.Binary.Bits.Codec
      • Data.Binary.Codec
    • Data.Codec
      • Data.Codec.Testing
  • Foreign
    • Foreign.Codec

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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.2, 0.2.1
Dependencies aeson (>=0.8.0.2), base (>=4.6 && <4.9), binary (>=0.7), binary-bits (>=0.5), bytestring (>=0.10), data-default-class (>=0.0.1), mtl (>=2.2.1), template-haskell (>=2.8), text (>=1.2.0.4), transformers (>=0.4.2.0), unordered-containers (>=0.2.5.1) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Patrick Chilton
Maintainer chpatrick@gmail.com
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Home page https://github.com/chpatrick/codec
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/chpatrick/codec.git
Uploaded by PatrickChilton at 2015-06-02T13:50:11Z
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