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 && <4.10) [details]
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Author Mateusz Kloczko
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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.
  • all fields of the constructor need to be GStorable.
  • implement a Generic instance (derive (Generic))

In order to achieve the same performance as for hand-written instances, take a look at 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