binary-typed

Version 1.0 revision 0 uploaded 2015-12-19T20:58:32.000Z by quchen.

Package meta

Synopsis

Type-safe binary serialization

Description

Binary serialization tagged with type information, allowing for typechecking and useful error messages at the receiving site.

This package serves the same purpose as tagged-binary, with a couple of key differences:

• Support of different kinds of serialized type annotations, each with specific strengths and weaknesses.

• Error messages can provide details on type errors at the cost of longer message lengths to include the necessary information.

• Very small performance overhead compared to using standard Binary due to caching when using hashed type information. Since shown and full types are not cached, decoding them has a significant performance hit (ballpark: factor of two).

• No depencency on Internal modules of other libraries, and a very small dependency footprint in general.

For information about usage, see the Data.Binary.Typed.Tutorial module.

Performance-wise, here is a value Right (Left <100 chars lipsum>) of type Either (Char, Int) (Either String (Maybe Integer)) benchmarked using the Hashed64 type representation:

(local copy)

Author

David Luposchainsky <dluposchainsky on googles email service>

Bug reports

https://github.com/quchen/binary-typed/issues

Category

Data, Serialization

Copyright

David Luposchainsky <dluposchainsky on googles email service>

Homepage

https://github.com/quchen/binary-typed

Maintainer

David Luposchainsky <dluposchainsky on googles email service>

Package URL

n/a

Stability

n/a

Components

• lib:binary-typed
• bench:criterion
• bench:criterion-overview
• test:message-length
• test:tasty