Data.HexString

Documentation

data HexString

Represents a Hex string. Guarantees that all characters it contains are valid hex characters.

Instances

Eq HexString

Ord HexString

Show HexString

ToJSON HexString

FromJSON HexString

hexString :: ByteString -> HexString

Smart constructor which validates that all the text are actually hexadecimal characters.

fromBinary :: Binary a => a -> HexString

Converts a Binary to a HexString value

toBinary :: Binary a => HexString -> a

Converts a HexString to a Binary value

fromBytes :: ByteString -> HexString

Reads a ByteString as raw bytes and converts to hex representation. We cannot use the instance Binary of ByteString because it provides a leading length, which is not what we want when dealing with raw bytes.

toBytes :: HexString -> ByteString

Access to the raw bytes in a ByteString format.

toText :: HexString -> Text

Access to a Text representation of the HexString