bytes

Sharing code for serialization between binary and cereal

https://github.com/ekmett/bytes

Version on this page:0.15.0.1@rev:1
LTS Haskell 23.19:0.17.4@rev:1
Stackage Nightly 2025-04-30:0.17.4@rev:1
Latest on Hackage:0.17.4@rev:1

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Edward A. Kmett
Maintained by Edward A. Kmett
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Module documentation for 0.15.0.1

bytes

Build Status

This package provides a simple compatibility shim that lets you work with both binary and cereal with one chunk of serialization code.

Contact Information

Contributions and bug reports are welcome!

Please feel free to contact me through github or on the #haskell IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

-Edward Kmett

Changes

0.15.0.1

  • Updated github URLs in the .cabal file.
  • We now compile without warnings on GHC 7.10.

0.15

  • Fixed a serious bug in the semantics of generic Serial1 generation for the recursive case and improved Generic1 support for :.:.

0.14.1.2

  • Support void 0.7 / GHC 7.10

0.14

  • Lots of new instances
  • text bound bump to allow 1.1.

0.13.0.1

  • Bumped dependency on text to support 1.0

0.13

0.11.5

  • Fixed issue #7, permitting the doctests to function against bytestring 0.9

0.11.4

  • Fixed issue #6 with regards to the test harness performance.

0.11.3

  • Fixed the doctests from 0.11.2

0.11.2

  • Constraint binary version for issue #5.

0.11.1

  • Liberalized containers dependency to allow containers versions all the way back to 0.3 for stackage purposes

0.11

  • Added Data.Bytes.VarInt and Data.Bytes.Signed.

0.10.2

  • Switched to <stdint.h> to get more portable size correctness.

0.10.1

  • Fixed typo in cbits/i2d.c that was causing a linking error.

0.10

  • Changed all of the byte orders to big-endian by default except for Word and Int, which are variable sized.

0.9

  • Added proper support for binary 0.7.
  • Restored lookAheadM and lookAheadE, thanks to the return of lookAheadE in binary 0.7.
  • Renamed Unchecked to Remaining, and removed the uncheckedLookAhead function, as it is no longer supported downstream.

0.8

  • Trustworthiness

0.4

  • Added a missing () instance

0.3

  • Added Serial2 and various missing Serial1 instances.

0.2

  • Added Serial and Serial1.

0.1

  • Repository initialized